Citation

Pan A, Daley S, Rivera LM, Williams K, Lingle D, Reznik V. J. Immigr. Minor. Health 2006; 8(1): 35-43.

Affiliation

Ahimsa Project for Safe Families, Center for Community Solutions, San Diego, California, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10903-006-6340-y

PMID

19834998

Abstract

Domestic violence affects women across all racial, national, social, and economic groups. In particular, immigrant and refugee families are at risk for domestic violence because of their migration history and differences in cultural values and norms. The Ahimsa for Safe Families Project is an innovative collaborative project that addresses domestic violence in immigrant and refugee communities in San Diego. The project is designed to increase awareness of domestic violence among Latino, Somali, and Vietnamese communities and to develop and implement culturally specific programs aimed at each community. Here the authors describe the Project's needs assessment and community dialogues that guided the development of specific interventions; present the lessons learned; and describe replicable, culturally specific prevention strategies utilized by the Project.

Language: en