Health
National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence
The National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence is the nation’s clearinghouse for information on the health care response to domestic violence and provides free technical assistance and materials to thousands of people each year. The Center is one of five specialized domestic violence resource centers in the country funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [more...]
Healthcare-Based Domestic Violence Programs
Healthcare providers are an essential link in the coordinated effort to break the cycle of violence and build a healthy community. Identifying and responding to domestic violence (DV) in health care settings can make a tremendous difference for patients’ physical health, mental health, safety, and quality of life. [more...]
New Project Connect Sites Announced
We’re proud to announce that 11 new sites have been selected to participate in the new phase of Project Connect! Five health sites serving Native communities and six states will continue the groundbreaking public health initiative designed to improve the health and safety of women and children. Project Connect is supported by the Office on Women’s Health, and funded through the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2006.
[more...]Project Connect 2.0
Futures Without Violence is selecting new sites for Phase 2 of Project Connect, supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health. Since 2010, Futures Without Violence and OWH have worked in partnership with ten State and Tribal pilot sites to develop policy and public heath responses to domestic and/or sexual violence in women’s health programs. [more...]
IPV Screening and Counseling Toolkit
The IPV Screening and Counseling Toolkit was developed to provide practitioners, health plan administrators, domestic violence advocates and others with the best resources to meet the new domestic and interpersonal violence provision and support patients facing abuse. [more...]
Hanging Out or Hooking Up
For one in five U.S. teen girls, the most vivid memories of high school will not be their junior prom or a favorite history teacher. Instead,20% of teen girls will remember the physical abuse inflicted by someone they were dating. New guidelines for health care providers help them to better prevent and address adolescent relationship abuse. [more...]
Home Visitation Programs Can Help More Families if They Address Domestic Violence
The Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010, included new benchmark requirements for maternal infant and early childhood home visitation programs. One such benchmark requires home visitation programs to measure a reduction in "crime or domestic violence". [more...]
Reproductive Health Initiative
Pregnancy is an important experience in a woman’s life and violence should not be a part of it. With nearly one in three women at risk for abuse in her lifetime, domestic violence is more common than pre-eclamplsia and hypertension -- both commonly addressed during pregnancy. Yet women are rarely asked about abuse or given information about the links between violence and their health. [more...]
Project Connect
Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund has chosen ten sites in nine states for a groundbreaking two-year violence prevention initiative designed to improve the health and safety of women and children. Project Connect: A Coordinated Public Health Initiative to Prevent Violence against Women is funded by the Office on Women’s Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It will find new ways to identify, respond to and prevent domestic and sexual violence, and promote an improved public health response to abuse. Project Connect funding stems from the health provisions in the Violence against Women Reauthorization Act of 2005. [more...]
Native Health Initiative
Intimate partner violence poses a significant health threat across Indian Country. Increasingly, health care professionals recognize that it is a major public health problem that causes grave and lasting harm to individuals, families and communities. In the largest-ever survey of its kind, a 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on health and violence found that 39 percent of Native women reported that they were victims of intimate partner violence some time in their lives – a rate higher than any other race or ethnicity surveyed. [more...]
