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Creating A Lasting Response

How do I make my clinic more supportive of IPV disclosure?

Posters:
Posters are essential. Even if patients don't feel comfortable disclosing IPV on site, they can use hotline numbers from posters to get help. You can order posters from the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
If you live in San Francisco, you can download this San Francisco-specific exam room door poster or make a similar one listing your local IPV resources.
Safety Cards:
Place these wallet-sized cards in bathrooms, exam rooms, and waiting rooms. Cards are available for both victims/survivors and perpetrators in various languages. You can order preprinted cards directly from the Family Violence Prevention Fund or print cards conveniently from this site.
Change charts:
a.) chart stamp: Busy providers will not remember to screen for IPV without written prompts. Stamp your problem list with a prompt screening stamp. (see here for an example of how to use this screening stamp.
b.) body/face maps: face map, body map
Adopting protocol for your practice
In order to ensure both staff and patient safety as well as institutionalization of the clinical response to IPV it is helpful to have a protocol that delineates each staff person’s role in the clinical response to IPV.
See a sample clinic protocol from the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Also see other protocols from around the country.

How do I convince my administration
to support IPV programs?

The Business Case for Domestic Violence Programs in Health Care Settings (Family Violence Prevention Fund)
JCAHO Standard PC.3.10 on Victims of Abuse
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, (JCAHO) , evaluates and accredits more than 16,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. In 2004, JCAHO instituted new standards for hospitals on how to respond to domestic abuse, neglect and exploitation. The above link summarizes these standards.
Department of Health and Human Services report
Department of Health and Human Services report on all institutions of society and how they should change their practices to help end violence against women.

How do I assess our program's success and durability?

Clinic Assessment
Look at this checklist and see if your clinic has a fully institutionalized IPV program.

Assess your provider's knowledge level with this Knowledge, Assessment,and Behavior (KAB) survey and read answers and review of references cited. (Developed by Linda Chamberlain PhD MPH, Founding Director Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project.)

QUICK LINKS

Quick Screening Tool

IPV Hotlines

Safety Planning

Mandatory Reporting

CREATING A LASTING RESPONSE

How do I make my clinic more supportive of IPV disclosure?

How do I convince my administration
to support IPV programs?

How do I assess our program's success and durability?


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LEAP strives to improve the health care response to intimate partner violence.

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