Saturday, March 31, 2012: 11:25 AM-12:45 PM
Pacific I (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report
Learning Objectives:
- Identify best practices in the health care response to domestic violence regarding screening, documentation and crisis intervention
- Demonstrate an understanding of considerations in hospital-based domestic violence program development and implementation identified in the Toolkit, including partnering between local domestic violence service providers and health care facilities, and designing programs that are tailored to a facility’s needs and capacity
- Gain a deeper understanding of current issues in domestic violence and health care in the context of broader issues in domestic violence policy and the historical sweep of the battered women's movement and the "Duluth Model", now celebrating its 30th anniversary
The Maryland Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence has developed a comprehensive Toolkit to help hospitals and health care providers improve their domestic violence response. We will explore key aspects of this Toolkit, using a new documentary film as a point of reference. "Power and Control: Domestic Violence in America" was partly filmed in Baltimore and includes a focus on the hospital-based crisis counseling and advocacy intervention program at Mercy Medical Center, where much of the toolkit evolved.