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A means to an end: Integrating a trauma-informed approach for achieving collective impact on family violence prevention
Family violence is a critical and damaging public health and social problem that impacts every aspect of society, often destroying families and damaging lives. Over the past few years economic and other factors have resulted in reductions to domestic violence (DV) resources, consequently stressing prevention and response capacity among systems and organizations providing services and programs.
Methods:
Through cooperative agreement and commitment, a diverse array of public, private, and nonprofit agencies have mobilized within a collective impact model to apply a trauma-informed framework to transform and enhance understanding, engagement, and integration while advancing cultural competencies. Through County leadership, a compelling call to action for partners from all major public serving systems and service sectors to launch a Rapid Response Needs Assessment and the formation of a family violence advisory team.
Results:
Connecting to the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) studies and public health strategies, concerns over gaps in resources has been repurposed into engaging our community in four key action areas: improving professionals’ capacity through education and training, increased public awareness, enhancements to data collection systems and tools, and data sharing agreements.
Discussion:
Working with families, communities and stakeholders is propelling long-term systems and cultural changes across multiple and complex systems. The Family Violence Prevention and Response Initiative is one implementation component of Live Well San Diego’s Living Safely strategy designed to ensure that San Diego families are healthy, safe, and thriving.
Learning Areas:
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelinesSystems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health
Learning Objectives:
Describe the development process, structure, and responses to challenges for integrating and applying a Trauma-Informed framework within a Collective Impact model.
Identify innovative data collection strategies tied to powerful dissemination strategies that can be achieved through partnership with those most impacted, and the families.
Assess relevance of lessons learned to participant’s own communities.
Keyword(s): Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration, Violence & Injury Prevention
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a project manager with the County of San Diego HHSA with extensive experience in program planning, implementation and evaluation in the areas of violence prevention, chronic disease prevention, health informatics, occupational therapy, and community engagement. I currently manage multiple projects including the Family Violence Prevention and Response Initiative, a multi-sectoral and cross-disciplinary effort to improve family violence outcomes throughout San Diego County.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.