Video showing the Kaiser Permanente approach

Kaiser Permanente, America’s leading integrated health care organization, is committed to being an active partner in the solution to domestic violence. To learn more watch the Video clips.

Introducing the new Women's Health Cultural Competency Handbook for providers.

Kaiser Permanente is committed to providing linguistically and culturally competent care to its increasingly diverse membership. Meeting the needs of its membership and addressing the urgent national problem of disparities in health status and health care delivery require interventions that are respectful, patientcentered, and culturally skilled. One such intervention is the Provider Handbooks. The goal of the Provider Handbooks is to provide Kaiser Permanente clinicians with an overview of cultural and epidemiological characteristics of major cultural groups, with a focus on common characteristics of each group that may have implications for health care organizations and practitioners.
Brigid McCaw, MD wrote the chapter on "Intimate Partner Violence" which includes key concepts that clinicians should know about IPV, considerations about IPV among different cultural and demographic groups, and a recommended approach for clinicians.

The Women's Health Handbook, which is the latest in the series on Culturally Competent Care was developed by the Kaiser Permanente National Diversity Council and the National Diversity Office.

Order form (the handbook is free, all you pay for is shipping)

Kaiser Permanente on the AHRQ Healthcare Innovations Exchange

Kaiser Permanente was recently featured on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Healthcare Innovations Exchange. Launched in 2008, the Innovations Exchange was developed to accelerate the development and adoption of innovations in health care delivery. The Innovations Exchange is a searchable repository of a wide range of healthcare innovations for use by physicians, nurses, other clinicians, administrators and others. Read about Kaiser Permanente's innovation, "Family Violence Prevention Program Significantly Improves Ability to Identify and Facilitate Treatment for Patients Affected by Domestic Violence".

KP Mid Atlantic physician, Susan Moriarty, MD named top winner of Health Care Heroes

Every year the Maryland Daily Record newspaper announces their Health Care Heroes awards.
Susan Moriarty, M.D. was named the Top Winner in the Physician Hero category for her work on the national Kaiser Permanente Intimate Partner Violence task force and for educating patients, staff, and physicians about IPV. Congratulations to Dr. Moriarty!
For more information see the article in the Daily Record.

Campaign Launched to Prevent Digital Dating Abuse among Teens

The Advertising Council, in partnership with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence against Women, announced the launch of a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign designed to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and take steps to prevent it. The new multimedia campaign, created pro bono by R/GA, includes an interactive website, mobile component, television, radio, print, outdoor, posters in schools and malls, and Web ads. It is designed to help teens recognize digital dating abuse and give them the tools to initiate a conversation about it. The PSAs direct audiences to visit, www.ThatsNotCool.com, where teens can find tools to “draw their own digital line” and a forum to discuss this form of abuse and seek help.

Kaiser Permanente has several resources for teens.

“You deserve a safety zone” is a tip sheet for teens who may be dealing with violence or abuse in their dating relationships.  The tip sheet helps teens assess the health of their relationships, encourages teens to seek help, and provides resource information.

"Is it abuse?" is a video created by Kaiser Permanente Colorado.  It was developed by the Kaiser Permanente Colorado Youth Advisory Council, in partnership with the Kaiser Permanente Colorado Educational Theatre Programs and Intimate Partner Violence Teen Task Force.

Helpful websites:
National Teen Dating Violence Helpline
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Liz Claiborne’s “Love is Not Abuse” campaign

CDC'S INJURY CENTER ANNOUNCES CDC-TV VIDEO
"BREAK THE SILENCE"

In August, 2008, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) announced that the CDC now broadcasts public health videos through the CDC.gov Web page and the first segment developed, “Break the Silence: Stop the Violence,” addresses the topic of teen dating violence. View this innovative video, “Break the Silence,” where real parents and teens discuss the problem of dating violence and how to stop it before it starts.

This video is the first in the “Health Matters” series of online videos found on the new CDC-TV Web page and premieres work being done by the center’s Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) through the ‘Choose Respect’ initiative.

For more information about CDC-TV see cdc.gov/features/cdctv/ or to view the resources available through CDC-TV visit cdc.gov/CDCTV/