OVERVIEW

Preventing Intimate Partner Violence Across the Lifespan: A Technical Package of Programs, Policies, and Practices is organized by At Health, LLC. This Text Based Course has been approved for a maximum of 3 Credits.

Target audience:
Psychologists, mental health counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, addiction counselors, nurses.

Description:
This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and its consequences across the lifespan. These strategies include teaching safe and healthy relationship skills; engaging influential adults and peers; disrupting the developmental pathways toward IPV; creating protective environments; strengthening economic supports for families; and supporting survivors to increase safety and lessen harms. The strategies represented in this package include those with a focus on preventing IPV, including teen dating violence (TDV), from happening in the first place or to prevent it from continuing, as well as approaches to lessen the immediate and long-term harms of partner violence. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business and labor, and government can bring about the successful implementation of this package.

Learning Objectives:
Based on the content of this course, I can:
• Discuss the research that indicates the prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence
• Show how Intimate Partner Violence is connected with other forms of violence
• Explain some of the health and economic consequences of Intimate Partner Violence
• Summarize how Intimate Partner Violence can be prevented
• Illustrate cultural and socioeconomic factors that impact the risk for perpetration and victimization of Intimate Partner Violence