Getting them all on board - networking to improve safety and health status of DV survivors in a rural area in Germany

Friday, October 9, 2009: 1:25 PM-2:45 PM
Salon 817/821 (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel)
Speaker:
Ulrike Janz, Qualified, Psychologist, GESINE-Netzwerk Gesundheit.EN

Author:
Marion Steffens, Certified, Social, Pedagogue, GESINE-Netzwerk Gesundheit.EN


Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Description:
The GESINE network against DV, located in west-german Ennepe-Ruhr-County has 5-year experience in working with and connecting health providers from different professions (doctors, nurses, midwifes,psycho- and physiotherapists, clinical staff, health administrations). Through training, coaching, providing materials,organizing conferences and networking GESINE aims(and succeeds) in involving the health care providers in the multi-professional violence intervention system. Recently GESINE (together with the institute of legal medicine Düsseldorf and SIGNAL e.V., Berlin) is running a germanwide pilot programm focusing on general practioners and gynecologists.