We’re very proud of how far we’ve come – and aware that there’s much more to do. With skilled partners, we’ve developed materials that tens of thousands of health care providers – and others – use each year. They include:
- A new toolkit, which is helping the nation’s 15,000 community health centers develop partnerships with local domestic violence and sexual assault prevention programs.
- More than two dozen powerful videos that help health care providers respond to domestic violence and reproductive coercion, and help advocates integrate health services into their work.
- Our You Matter safety card tool, which supports teens who had adverse childhood experiences – often witnessing domestic violence – developed with young people, adolescent health providers, and school-based staff.
We have a special focus on creating tools to help address the domestic and sexual violence that contribute to our country’s Black maternal health crisis, and on helping health care providers address the impact of violence on
reproductive health at this time when it’s become much more difficult for survivors of rape, incest, and domestic violence to access the reproductive health care they need.
And because domestic violence and sexual assault happen to people of all ages, we’ve crafted our materials to help health care providers support survivors across the lifespan – including during childhood and adolescence, and when elder abuse and neglect affect too many of us.
We hope you will use and share these materials, and stay in touch as we develop more. We thank you, so much, for supporting our work!
In Solidarity,
Lisa James, Vice President, Health
Virginia Duplessis, Associate Director, Health
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