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Education & Training

 
New Vermont Curriculum on Intimate Partner Violence for Health Care Practitioners


 

The Vermont Network Office in collaboration with the Vermont

The statewide Health Care and Intimate Partner Violence Leadership Team is currently discussing strategies to make this curriculum available to Vermont health care practitioners and to recruit and train future facilitators. Would you like to pilot this curriculum at your facility? Would you like to become a facilitator? Or do you have any other questions, comments or ideas regarding this project? Contact Antje Ricken, Health Care Project Coordinator at (802)223-1302 or aricken@vtnetwork.org

 Department of Health and the Vermont Medical Society created a curriculum specifically designed for health care professionals. The comprehensive curriculum packet contains power point lectures with extensive lecture notes, handouts and exercises for participants, videos, and materials to organize a community resource panel. It comes with a detailed facilitator’s guide.

The curriculum is based on the result of focus groups with Vermont health care professionals and follows the recommendations on family violence education for health care professionals provided by the Centers for Disease Control and the Institute of Medicine. It is designed to be facilitated by a teaching team including both health care professionals and domestic violence advocates. The four units can be implemented in 4-6 hours, either in four separate sessions or in one all-day training
 

VT Curriculum on Intimate Partner Violence
for Health Care Practitioners

 

Contents of the Curriculum Packet:

Facilitator’s Guide

Unit 1:
Slide Lecture Introduction: Intimate Partner Violence and Health Care: Making the Connection

Slide Lecture Topic 1: Understanding Intimate Partner Violence and its Health Impact

Unit 2:
Slide Lecture Topic 2: The Clinical Encounter: Tools to Improve Health and Safety Outcomes for Patients who are Victims of Intimate Partner Violence

Unit 3:
Slide Lecture Topic 3 Beyond the Clinical Encounter: Institutional and Legal Contexts

Unit 4:
Slide Lecture Topic 4: Health Care Providers as Part of the Community Response to Intimate Partner Violence

Community Resource Panel Materials

 

Video 1: Domestic Violence: Voices of Survivors and Perpetrators

Video 2: Screening to End Abuse (Clinical Scenarios)

  Hosted by the Vermont Medical Society