Promoting partnerships between women's health and domestic violence programs: lessons learned from Virginia's pilot sites

Abstract

Participants in this session will view a presentation containing a description of the need for partnerships between domestic violence and women's health programs, an overview of Virginia's Project Connect pilot sites, including the resources and challenges specific to each community and various models employed for providing on-site health services in each domestic violence program, challenges raised and how they were addressed, and evaluation activities and findings. The statewide coordinator of the initiative will share stories, experiences and feedback from health care providers and program staff in the pilot sites. Participants will also be given copies of all screening tools, forms, policies and training resources developed and the speakers will facilitate group discussion to get feedback on and answer questions about the materials.