Integrating domestic violence screening and best practices into family support programming

West, Patricia JoAnn

Friday, March 20, 2015: 10:15 AM-11:35 AM

Room 3 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Patricia JoAnn West, BA, Iowa Department of Public Health

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Learn how the state of Iowa is working to train all family support program staff across the state in the Futures Without Violence training curriculum, as well as integrating a domestic violence screening protocol for all family support programming.
Learn how the Maternal Infant Early Childhood Home Visitation (MIECHV) programs in Iowa are screening for domestic violence, as well as documenting the screen and tracking referrals based on that screen.
Learn how MIECHV CQI team is focusing on domestic violence and how they are looking to improve the domestic violence screening process.

Description:
The field of family support is well positioned to develop best practices for talking with families about domestic violence. Home visitors have a unique roll. In Iowa, we have made it a priority to provide home visitors with the education, skills and tools needed to work with families around the issues of domestic violence. This is an opportunity to learn how Iowa has incorporated the Futures Without Violence Healthy Moms Happy Babies training curriculum into all family support work.