Chicago's medical response collaborative: A model for improving the health systems response to domestic violence

Doherty, Kathleen A.

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 9:50 AM-11:10 AM

Room 10/11 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Kathleen A. Doherty, LCSW, Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women's Network

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Be familiar with the three components of the Medical Response Collaborative.
Know how to set up a similar collaborative effort in their own community.
Understand the collaborative's focus on the intersection of service delivery, professional training and healthcare policy advocacy.

Description:
The Medical Response Collaborative of the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network seeks to modernize DV service delivery by reaching victims where they already are instead of expecting them to seek out services. The collaborative works to build more strategic partnerships between DV service and healthcare providers. Collaborative members have designed a new model of medical response service delivery, focus on health policy advocacy, and offer new training curricula in best practices in DV screening and identification.