Tillamook county safer futures project: Creating a holistic health response to IPV

Brown, Heather L.

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 11:25 AM-12:45 PM

Room 16 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Heather L. Brown, MEd, Tillamook County Women's Resource Center

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand the core strategies of the Safer Futures Project: Co-Located Advocacy, Provider Training & Technical Assistance, and Community Capacity Building and Universal Education.
List 3 strategies for connecting with local health care systems: Face-time, Community Advisory Council attendance, Cross-Training.
Take away resources which will aid them in starting conversations with their own health care systems in order to create change.

Description:
Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center has partnered with local health care providers in a new project called Safer Futures. The primary goal of the Safer Futures Funding is to improve pregnant and parenting women and teens’ safety and well-being by increasing access to advocacy services within public health and local health care systems. This innovative project seeks to bring universal screening tools, local health care policy change and create a more collaborative community effort to prevent IPV.