West Side Domestic Abuse Program

A research-practice collaboration

In 1997, the UIC Great Cities project funded the Jane Addams College of Social Work, in conjunction with the UIC Department of Psychiatry to and the Chicago Abused Women Coalition to:

Develop the West Side Domestic Abuse Program (WSDAP)
Establish WSDAP on the West Side market
Seek funding for both the clinical program and the research program
Build a network structure for future social service collaboration

This university-government-community partnership was designed to provide research-based batterers intervention programs on Chicago's west side. The clinical portion of the program was initially housed at two sites: the Institute for Juvenile Research/UIC Department of Psychiatry and Haymarket Center. In 2003, West Side Domestic Abuse Program left both Haymarket and UIC and incorporated as a not-for-profit agency located at 2741 North Spaulding, Chicago IL 60647

In addition to developing a much needed batterer intervention program for West Side residents, this project provide an opportunity to develop a field-based research program in an area widely regarded as under-researched: characteristics of men who batter and the effectiveness of programs designed to prevent their continued violence.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WSDAP RESEARCH:
Charles Stoops, Ph.D, LCSW, School of Social Work, Dominican University,
Christine Call, Ph.D. LCSW, School of Social Work, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Larry Bennett, Ph.D., LCSW, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago

FOR INFORMATION ON WSDAP SERVICES:
Frances Brown (773)862-5408
Vivian Guitierrez (773)862-5408.