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Making connections across silos : intimate partner violence, mental health, and substance use Robyn Mason, Marni Wolf, Susan O'Rinn and Gabrielle Ene

By: Mason, Robyn.
Contributor(s): Wolf, Marni | O'Rinn, Susan | Ene, Gabrielle.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticleSeries: BMC Women's Health.Publisher: BioMed Central, 2017Subject(s): CANADA | DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | EDUCATION | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | MENTAL HEALTH | SUBSTANCE ABUSE | TRAININGOnline resources: Click here to access online In: BMC Women's Health, 2017, 17: 29 (Open access)Summary: Untold numbers of women worldwide are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) with a substantial number of these experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. Despite the complex interconnections among these problems, funding mechanisms and organizational structures and mandates have been designed to address just a single, focal problem. One of the challenges for frontline providers is the lack of effective, evidence-informed inter-professional education or training to help them identify and appropriately respond to co-occurring problems. We developed an evidence-informed, competency-based curriculum to address this gap. In this paper we report on its effectiveness in increasing knowledge, changing beliefs and enhancing skills of frontline workers from all three sectors. (From the authors' abstract). Record #5396
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BMC Women's Health, 2017, 17: 29 (Open access)

Untold numbers of women worldwide are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) with a substantial number of these experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. Despite the complex interconnections among these problems, funding mechanisms and organizational structures and mandates have been designed to address just a single, focal problem. One of the challenges for frontline providers is the lack of effective, evidence-informed inter-professional education or training to help them identify and appropriately respond to co-occurring problems. We developed an evidence-informed, competency-based curriculum to address this gap. In this paper we report on its effectiveness in increasing knowledge, changing beliefs and enhancing skills of frontline workers from all three sectors. (From the authors' abstract). Record #5396