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Health professionals have an unprecedented opportunity to provide universal education on healthy relationships, assess patients for IPV, and intervene if abuse is identified. This can improve health and decrease risk for violence.
Advocates
Advocates are in a unique position to intervene and reduce health consequences related to IPV, as entering domestic violence programs may be the first time survivors have had space to address health and wellness.
Find resources here for survivors who may be seeing a health provider for the first time in a while, and for survivors who work in health settings who want to advocate for a more trauma-informed workplace.
Working together to promote health, wellness and safety--and prevent violence before it begins
The effects of violence can be long-lasting and severe. In addition to the immediate health impacts of abuse, survivors are more likely to experience asthma, chronic pain, diabetes, and other long-term health impacts.
It’s why health professionals play such an important role in both preventing violence and supporting survivor health. Research shows that survivors are four times more likely to use an intervention after talking with a provider about abuse. And when health providers partner with domestic and sexual violence advocates, these partnerships can have an even greater impact on the well-being of survivors.
Helping providers start the conversation about healthy relationships
What if we challenged the limits to disclosure driven practice? Studies show that talking to all of your patients about healthy relationships and how unhealthy relationships affect health, not screening, is what improves health and safety, and prevents violence.
Evidence-based interventions are available. Health care providers can educate all patients on the health impact of violence, offer tailored health promotion strategies and resources, and provide warm referrals if the patient discloses abuse.
To learn more, check out CUES, the evidence-based, trauma-informed intervention for addressing domestic violence in health settings.
intervention resources shared in all fifty states and the District of Columbia
Resource Library
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Is Your Relationship Affecting Your Health? General Health Safety Card
General Health includes new content on healing from past trauma, while prompting women to reflect on how difficult experiences can shape a person’s life. View resource -
Caring For You, Caring For Me: Sex, Health, and Choice (Reproductive Health)
The Caring for You, Caring for Me patient education brochure was developed for use in sexual and reproductive health settings. View resource -
Survivor Brochure: Healthcare Guide For (And By) Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence
FUTURES worked in partnership with the Survivor Leadership Cohort to adapt this brochure originally created in collaboration with the National Center on… View resource -
You Matter (Teen ACES) Safety Card
You Matter is a safety card tool to support teens who have histories of adverse childhood experiences. View resource -
We Are Sacred - American Indian/Alaska Native Reproductive Health Safety Card
This safety card was designed for health settings serving Native communities including IHS clinics, Tribal health centers, and Urban Indian Health Centers. View resource -
Safe Places to Rest Your Head: Healing, Heart and Hope
The goal of this safety card is to be both a survivor-centered resource and a useful conversation starter for health care providers, counselors, social… View resource -
Let's Talk Boundaries, Consent, and Support- New Campus Card
Let's Talk Boundaries, Consent and Support is a safety card designed for college-aged students. View resource -
Health, healing, and relationships: You are not alone
"Health, healing, and relationships: You are not alone" Safety Card People living with HIV are more likely to have experienced domestic, sexual, and other… View resource -
Connected Parents, Connected Kids ACEs Safety Card
The Connected Parents, Connected Kids Safety Card is a universal education tool that health care and community-based providers can distribute as part of… View resource
