Health Care

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. A project of the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Center supports leaders in the field through groundbreaking model professional, education and response programs, cutting-edge advocacy and sophisticated technical assistance. The Center offers a wealth of free culturally competent materials that are appropriate for a variety of public and private health professions, settings and departments.

We do not provide crisis services. If you are in an abusive relationship and need assistance, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) to speak to a trained advocate. If you are in serious immediate danger, please call 911.

The Center offers:

• Personalized, expert technical assistance through its toll free phone number, online, via email, fax, postal mail and face-to-face at professional conferences and meetings around the nation.
• Free, downloadable health care information folios focusing on various specialties, populations and key issues. These include fact sheets, model programs and strategies, bibliographies and protocols.
• Technical tools and materials. These include: clinical practice recommendations for adult and child health settings; an electronic business case tool for health institutions seeking to create comprehensive domestic violence programs; papers on health privacy principles that protect victims, coding and documentation strategies, and more; screening and response training videos; comprehensive resource and training manuals; clinical reference tools; and patient and public education materials.
• Online access to the Health Material Index
• A free on-line journal: Family Violence Prevention and Health Practice. This new biennial journal focuses on health, safety and quality of health care for survivors of family violence. To subscribe or offer input, go to www.endabuse.org/health/ejournal.
• Health e-News, a monthly electronic news digest about health care and domestic violence policy, research, prevention and advocacy. Subscribe or share opinions or activities.
• Models for local, state and national health care and domestic violence policy making.
• Tools, strategies and personalized assistance to help health care professionals and advocates join the annual Health Cares About Domestic Violence Day, which is dedicated to raising awareness about abuse among health care professionals and the public.
• A biennial National Conference on Health Care and Domestic Violence – a scientific meeting at which health, medical and domestic violence experts and leaders explore the latest health research and programmatic responses to domestic violence.

Toll-free: 888-Rx-ABUSE TTY: 800-595-4889
Email: health@endabuse.org

Go to Health Care & Domestic Violence Catalog of Materials

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