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For more than a decade, the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence has supported health care practitioners, administrators and systems, domestic violence experts, survivors, and policy makers at all levels as they improve health care’s response to domestic violence.  To learn more about The Center, click here.

We do not provide crisis services. If you are in an abusive relationship and need assistance, please call the toll-free National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). If you are in immediate danger, please call 911.

The Center offers:

• Personalized, expert technical assistance. Toll-free: 888-Rx-ABUSE (792-2873), TTY: 800-595-4889, or place an online Technical Assistance Request

• Tools and materials. View the online Health Materials Index and order educational and clinical tools for providers and patients.

• A free on-line journal: Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice

• Tools for Health Cares About Domestic Violence Day

• A biennial National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence

• A free webinar series with expert presenters, and cutting edge topics

• A bi-annual Health Resource Center newsletter on new products, program features and educational opportunities
  • June 2010
  • October 2010

Did you know? 

February is International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month

Infants born to women who are physically abused during pregnancy are at greater risk of low birth weight, pre-term birth, or even death. Children born to abused mothers are 17 percent more likely to be born underweight and more than 30 percent more likely than other children to require intensive care upon birth. Women experiencing abuse in the year prior to and/or during a recent pregnancy are 40 to 60 percent more likely than non-abused women to report high-blood pressure, vaginal bleeding, severe nausea, kidney or urinary tract infections and hospitalization during pregnancy and are 37 percent more likely to deliver preterm. OB/GYN practitioners and nurses should assess patients for domestic violence each trimester and postpartum because of the connection to neonatal health. To learn how domestic violence impacts pregnancy outcomes, view Chapter 8: IPV and Perinatal Programs from Making the Connection: Intimate Partner Violence and Public Health.

For more information, visit: www.groupbstrepinternational.org