Community Health Promotion Project Design: Intimate Partner Violence
The special emphasis population at focus in this project is those who are affected by Intimate Partner Violence. The community agency that will be identifying and treating these individuals is the Public Health Department.
Primary Program Components
The primary components of the program described herein include the following:
(1) Assessment for intimate partner violence and training curricula to make sure that the program uses the most current best practices as they are emergent;
(2) Component for technical assistance and training for increasing local capacity for primary prevention of Intimate Partner Violence;
(3) A component for implementing, assessing and refining the comprehensive prevention program plan; and (4) A component for evaluation. (Connecticut Department of Public Health, 2009)
Conceptual Framework: Socio-Ecological Model
The Socio-Ecological Model has been chosen for this program because it "supports a comprehensive public health approach that not only addresses an individual's risk factors, but also the norms, beliefs and social and economic systems that create the conditions for the occurrence of sexual violence." (Connecticut Department of Public Health, 2009, p.5) In addition, the Socio-Ecological model "…recognizes that the individual is strongly influenced by domains, systems and norms, and that influencing each of these will most effectively reduce violence. The model is based on the recognition that no one group or institution can end sexual violence alone and that change needs to take place on the individual, relationship, community, institutional, and societal levels to truly impact the problem." (Connecticut Department of Public Health, 2009,...
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