Importance of a Multi-Disciplinary Team

Rather than relying on the limited perspective of a single person or department, Praxis Institutional Analysis is conducted by a local interagency team that is made up of a set of experienced practitioners who respond to violence against women. The team’s roles include: the coordinator, one or more community-based advocates to represent the voices and collective experiences of survivors, one or more representatives of discipline(s) being analyzed, and representatives of key disciplines that are closely linked to the scope and focus of the analysis. Individual team members gather data and they also meet as a group to debrief data collection activities, analyze data collected, and explore and discuss the findings. The team helps to streamline implementation of changes recommended, but they have also learned a new way to identify and resolve problems in institutional case processing. This webinar will provide an overview of assembling, preparing, and working with a team to conduct an Institutional Analysis and will highlight team configurations and outcomes from several projects.