TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Creating safe spaces: a community health worker-academic partnered approach to addressing intimate partner violence
JO  - Ethnicity and disease
A1  - Wennerstrom, Ashley
A1  - Haywood, Catherine
A1  - Wallace, Maeve
A1  - Sugarman, Meredith
A1  - Walker, Ashlee
A1  - Bonner, Trupania
A1  - Sutton, Yana
A1  - Keller, Barbara Lacen
A1  - Lewis, Marva
A1  - Springgate, Benjamin
A1  - Theall, Katherine P.
SP  - 317
EP  - 324
VL  - 28
IS  - Suppl 2
N2  - Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a persistent public health problem in the United States, with an estimated one in three women experiencing rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner within her lifetime. Non-Hispanic Black women disproportionately experience IPV, but there has been limited success in implementing culturally appropriate prevention programs and services for members of this population. Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted members of under-resourced communities who provide reliable health information and improve the cultural appropriateness of service delivery and may be a vital resource for developing new IPV interventions. Guided by the principles of community partnered participatory research, we developed the CHW-led Safe Spaces project, which aimed to establish a strong academic-community partnership to focus on issues related to experiences of IPV and the prevention of IPV in New Orleans. In this article, we describe the development of our partnership including the formation of an advisory board, creation of a broad-based stakeholder coalition, offering a community partnered participatory research training, conducting IPV education and outreach, and establishing a research agenda. Our processes are replicable and lessons learned may be relevant to other groups seeking to address IPV by leveraging the strengths of community-academic collaborations and CHWs.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1049-510X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.28.S2.317
ID  - ref1
ER  -