Starting the conversation with patients about their relationships will make a difference
Addressing healthy relationships with patients
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 + safety and prevents violence.
Setting and culturally specific harm reduction
No matter what setting, health providers have the unique opportunity to offer culturally and linguistically accessible, patient-centered harm reduction strategies that enhance health and safety.
Patient and provider education tools
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Policy recommendations to address violence
United States Preventative Services Task Force, the Institutes of Medicine, the Joint Commission and most major health associations agree: providers should be talking to their patients about IPV.
Stay up to date with the latest resources and information from the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence.