Women’s healthcare physician will share lessons learned regarding screening women for intimate partner violence (IPV). We’ll briefly review how to help patients/clients identify when they are in unhealthy relationships, discuss the health implications of IPV, then dive into how healthcare providers and advocates might join forces to provide meaningful services for victims of violence that fill current gaps in care.
Participants in this session will leave able to:
1) Recognize the various forms of intimate partner violence and understand the health impact and the role of healthcare providers and advocates to address this preventable public health problem together; and,
2) Assist victims of intimate partner violence in assessing risk and connect with appropriate resources even in the midst of a pandemic that has increased isolation.
