Client Interventions; Trauma-Informed Care
Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Healthcare Settings
For almost 40 years, Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) has been building healthier, safer and more prosperous communities. Through innovative programs, award-winning public campaigns, and lasting policy gains, FUTURES advances change across 5 key pillars: Preventing Violence Against Women and Children; Creating Positive Pathways for Men and Boys; Improving Quality Health Access at Every Age; Expanding Economic Opportunity; Building the Next Generation of Courageous Leaders.
Healthcare providers have a unique role in addressing and preventing violence. In this course, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of intimate partner violence and learn to recognize the many health impacts on individual survivors and communities.
We’ll explore the limitations of conventional domestic violence screening protocols and equip you with the tools to offer a more survivor-centered approach, CUES. Through practical guidance, you’ll leave this course equipped to take the first steps toward implementing CUES in your healthcare context and fostering partnerships with community-based programs that promote health, safety, and healing.
CUES (Confidentiality, Universal Education, and Support) is an approach to addressing intimate partner and sexual violence in healthcare settings that encourages and equips providers to talk with all patients about safe and healthy relationships, the elements of healthy and unhealthy relationships, the health effects of violence, health promotionstrategies, and most importantly – how to get support