Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:40 AM-12:00 PM
Pacific H (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Understand programs and activities that are used to engage health care providers to improve personal and institutional responses to domestic, elder and sexual violence
- Understand the nature of a survey tool which was used to document a health facility response to domestic, elder and sexual violence and learn how this tool is being used over a five year period to document improvements
Over the past 10 years, through Illinois Health Cares, small grants of $35,000-40,000 have been given to 16 local communities to promote improved health care response to domestic, elder and sexual violence. A small study demonstrates some change in the health care community's response as a result of this initiative; additionally, the study points to areas where further policy work/ training need to focus in the quest to improve the capacity of the health care system to respond to violence.