Women Helping Women Fight Violence (WHWFV)- A Domestic Violence Prevention Training Program
A Videography of Interventions
WHWFV program is a result of the partnership between UMDNJ School of Nursing (SN) and The New Hope Baptist Church, both located in Newark, NJ and The Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey, based in Roseland. The program is in its second year and provided 60 hours of DV training to African-American women according to an approved curriculum by the NJ Coalition for Battered Women and DV Victims. 20 trainees have continued with WHWFV for advanced training. The trainees have been encouraged to distribute DV awareness information as well as assess and refer DV victims to local agencies. However, during these processes, the trainees also found themselves conducting various interventions in different locales, sometimes with DV victims who live in other states on the East coast. According to a UMDNJ IRB approved protocol, these same trainees relate the types of interventions and their personal reaction to the DV victims they service. After giving a brief personal history and recruitment into the training program, the trainees candidly discuss their fears and reservations as well as expectations for additional training and/or training enhancement in addition to a self-critique of their own intervention techniques.
See N/ALearning Objectives: Participants will learn of diverse forms of interventions that a group of 20 urban African-American women currently in training to become DV professionals expereinced in a 6 month period, which may easily be duplicated in other DV programs or by urban community based organizations which render services to women and/or DV victims.
Keywords: Domestic Violence, Interventions
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: 1)University of Medicine and Dentistry of NEw Jersey School of Nursing; 2) The New Hope Baptist Church; 3) Alfonso Assosiates
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.