Health Care
Health Care Webinar Series
July 29, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT Download Presentation
Building Health Care Leadership: A Systems Advocacy Approach to Addressing Domestic Violence in the Health Care System
Learn the basic elements of working collaboratively with health care systems to establish an institutionalized response to domestic violence. This webinar will assist domestic violence advocates and health care providers in gaining administrative buy-in, building leadership to sustain a response, understanding the health care system’s infrastructures and how they can contribute to strengthening the response to patient’s experiencing domestic violence, setting realistic goals and objectives and evaluating progress. The webinar will also identify available materials and tools that can assist in developing a successful health care response to domestic violence.
August 18, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT Download Presentation
Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Health Cares About Domestic Violence Day: Resources and Planning
HCADV Day takes place annually- this year on October 13, 2010. The Day aims to reach health care providers and educate them about the critical importance of assessing for domestic violence, as well as the long term health implications of domestic violence and lifetime exposure to violence. There are many ways that advocates, students, members of the health care community, and others can engage their community on this day, and the FVPF is committed to helping you craft activities that best meet your interests, resources and time availability. This webinar presentation will offer various organizing efforts to raise awareness and affect change in the health care arena.
September 21, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT
Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses in Indian Country
The Family Violence Prevention Fund, in collaboration with Mending the Sacred Hoop TA Project and Sacred Circle, share a new Promising Practice Report marking the work of a 7 year collaborative domestic violence (DV) and health care response program in Alaska Native and American Indian communities. This project worked with over 100 Indian/Tribal and Urban health care facilities and DV/SA community programs and was funded by the Indian Health Service and Administration for Children and Families. Learn how you can start your own clinical DV response program in your community by partnering with DV/SA community programs and utilizing national resources. This webinar will help identify available resources for providers and patients, including protocols for adaptation, and share stories from Tribal communities that have successfully undertaken this work. This webinar targets health care providers, administrators, tribal council leaders, DV/SA community advocates, and others.
Speakers:
Intro from Project Funders: Michelle Begay, Indian Health Service and Shena Williams and Rebecca Odor, Administration for Children and Families
Al Garcia, MSW, Robert Sundance Wellness Center, United American Indian Involvement
Anna Marjavi, Family Violence Prevention Fund
Jane Root, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indian Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Response Program
Co-sponsored by:
Family and Youth Services Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, DHHS
Indian Health Service, DHHS
Mending the Sacred Hoop TA Project
September 30, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT
State Policies on Domestic Violence and Health Care: Model States, Emerging Trends and Discussion
The Family Violence Prevention Fund offers a newly revised tool: Compendium of State Statutes and Policies on Domestic Violence and Health Care. This tool includes synopses of state domestic violence and health care laws and regulations with respect to: training, screening, protocols, mandatory reporting, insurance discrimination, and more. The tool’s introduction provides an overview of innovative and promising practice in identified areas, as well as suggestions for amending or creating such state laws and regulations. The webinar will feature the tool’s authors who will highlight model state statutes and regulations, discuss innovative public health response programs, and provide a forum for discussion. This webinar targets policy leaders, health care practitioners and public health professionals, DV/SA advocates, students, and others.
Speakers:
Nancy Durborow, Consultant, Family Violence Prevention Fund (formerly with Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence)
Terry Fromson, Women's Law Project
Abby O’Flaherty, Graduate Health Intern, Family Violence Prevention Fund (USF Law School, JD candidate 2011)
Anna Marjavi, Family Violence Prevention Fund
October 6, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT
Providing Health Services to Survivors in Domestic Violence Programs
This webinar will examine innovative and emerging models of clinical service provision that reach survivors of abuse directly in domestic violence (DV) community-based programs. Such model programs will be reviewed including how to partner with medical residency and nursing programs as well as public health programs to offer basic health services to clients. This work aims to reach both women and children already utilizing DV community services, as a cost effective, creative solution to address and improve the health needs of DV survivors. The webinar will also address the need for, and opportunity to assess for sexual assault, reproductive coercion and birth control interference at the time of DV program intake. Assessing for these reproductive health issues has the potential to reduce unintended pregnancy and address the issues of power and control faced by women entering shelter.
October 14, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PDT
Improving Domestic Violence Health Care Responses through Advocacy-led Trainings for Health Care Providers
Learn the basic elements of training health care providers on understanding the dynamics and complexities of domestic violence and its impact on their patient’s health and their role in identifying and providing assistance to patients experiencing domestic violence. This webinar will assist domestic violence advocates with concrete information and key points to include in training sessions for health care providers. Specific information addressed will include: understanding the implications of domestic violence on women’s health; key points for health care providers to consider when working with victims; key elements of an appropriate health care response; utilizing screening to identify patients with a history of domestic violence; defining success, documentation in the medical record and referral.
November 10, 2010, 11am-12:30pm PST
Responding to Lifetime Exposure to Abuse in Home Visitation Programs
How does domestic violence interfere with home visitation goals to improve maternal and child health outcomes? Given the impact of violence on both mothers and children, how can we promote health and safety, and strengthen bonding of mothers and children already being seen by home visitors? This webinar will explore those questions and also describe how home visitation programs can better engage mothers and fathers about parenting after exposure to violence. Additionally, presenters will explore how we can safely involve men in conversations about their own exposure to violence as a risk factor for perpetration and the opportunity to develop greater empathy and resiliency for themselves, their partners and children. The presenters will use the lens of children exposed to violence—looking first at the parent's own experiences of violence—as a way to begin the discussion about their own parenting style. A focus on empathy and strength-based approaches will be laid out as a way to support parents and a way to stop intergenerational violence. New tools and model programs will be discussed with an interactive question-and-answer section to follow.
