Domestic Violence

Understanding Harm Reduction Approaches to Address Intimate Partner Violence, Human Trafficking, Exploitation and Homelessness in Health Centers

Webinar Description:  Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation and National Health Care for the Homeless Council are co-hosting a webinar on the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV), human trafficking (HT), exploitation (E) and homelessness. The webinar will explore ways health center staff can apply a harm reduction approach when providing care for patients who […]

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A New Syndemic Approach: Domestic Violence, Homelessness and Harm Reduction

This workshop seeks to engage participants in reflection and conversation about the intersection of domestic violence, substance use, and homelessness while also identifying concrete and practical intervention strategies providers can begin to implement to best serve all our participants, and in this case specifically intimate partner violence survivors. Speaker: Tanagra Melgarejo, Author, MSW, National Learning

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Community Conversations: Working with Children, Youth and Families

Launched by the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network in November 2021, Community Conversations are formed around pressing issues affecting providers (defined broadly) who serve people experiencing homelessness. Community Conversations are not webinars: they are discussions informed by real-life cases meant to improve wellbeing of HCH providers through mutual support and problem-solving. Attendees are

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Gender, Homelessness, and Interpersonal Violence: Building Equitable Systems to Support Survivors and Providers

Webinar Slides(PDF) Futures Without Violence and The National Health Care for the Homeless Council are excited to offer a national webinar addressing gender, homelessness, and a constellation of intersecting issues including behavioral health, human trafficking (HT), and interpersonal violence (IPV). Participants will learn foundations of gender justice in homelessness, strategies to strengthen community partnerships, and

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Clinicians’ Network Community Conversations: Working with Children and Families

  Launched in November 2021, the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network hosts monthly Community Conversations. Forming around pressing issues affecting providers (defined broadly) who serve people experiencing homelessness, Community Conversations are not webinars: they are discussions informed by real-life cases meant to improve wellbeing of HCH providers through mutual support and problem-solving. Therefore,

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Safer at Home? COVID-19 and Domestic Violence

Webinar Slides(PDF) Call centers and police stations around the country report a staggering increase in domestic violence; violence in the home has become more common and significantly more severe during this crisis. For many households, safe places and coping strategies have been compromised while family stress has exponentially increased. For some, the threat of homelessness,

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