Health

Clicking on the links below will take you to that Association's website.

• Family Violence Prevention Fund: Healthcare http://endabuse.org/programs/healthcare/

For more than a decade, the Family Violence Prevention Fund�s (FVPF's) groundbreaking and highly successful National Health Initiative on Domestic Violence has been improving the health care response to domestic violence through public policy reform and health education and prevention efforts. The National Health Initiative on Domestic Violence develops educational resources, training materials and model protocols on domestic violence and screening to help health care providers better serve battered women.

• Maryland Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence www.medchi.org/grants/Domviolcoal/main.asp

The Maryland Health Care Coalition Against Domestic Violence was formed in 1998 to provide leadership within the health care community to promote a proactive and effective response to domestic violence through screening, identification, education, intervention and treatment of domestic violence victims.

• Nursing Network on Violence Against Women www.nnvawi.org/

Works to eliminate violence through advancing nursing education, practice, research, and public policy. Nonprofit/Foundation

• Prevention Institute www.preventioninstitute.org/violence_inti.html

Prevention Institute was founded in 1997 to address complex health and social issues. We move beyond approaches that target individuals, one person at a time, to create systematic, comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health.

• Virginia Department of Health Project RADAR www.ProjectRADARVA.com

  Project RADAR is a provider-focused initiative to promote the assessment and prevention of intimate partner violence in the health care setting. Through the RADAR initiative, the Center for Injury & Violence Prevention at the Virginia Department of Health seeks to enable Virginia's health care providers to recognize and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing them access to: "Best-Practice" Policies, Guidelines, and Assessment Tools, Training Programs and Specialty-Specific Curricula, Awareness and Educational Materials and Information on the Latest Research/Data related to IPV.