Lessons learned from 10 years of working collaboratively with health care providers in local communities to improve the health care response to domestic, elder and sexual violence

Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:40 AM-12:00 PM
Pacific H (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speaker:
Lynda Dautenhahn, BFA, MUP, Illinois Health Cares


Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:
  1. Understand programs and activities that are used to engage health care providers to improve personal and institutional responses to domestic, elder and sexual violence
  2. 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
Description:
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.