Monday, May 19, 2025
5/19/2025
Indian Health Care Resource Center Domestic Violence Project - Need: The year 2020 produced a record number of domestic violence reports in Oklahoma. Reported abuses perpetrated by family members, exceeded 27,000 and included murder, sex crimes, threats and assaults, according to an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation crime report released in fall of 2021. Indigenous people are disproportionately affected by domestic violence, human trafficking and murder, and become missing at much higher rates than people of other races. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) reports that 11% of all missing indigenous people and 14.7% of all missing indigenous women are from Oklahoma. In fact, Oklahoma ranks 2nd for missing Native American individuals. During the last fiscal year, almost 51% of IHCRC’s active clients received a domestic violence screening as part of IHCRC’s GPRA (Government Performance and Results Act) measures; 1106 (16%) of those individuals had a positive screen for intimate partner violence. Program: The purpose of Indian Health Care Resource Center’s (IHCRC) project is to expand and enhance its current culturally appropriate and trauma-informed domestic and interpersonal violence program. The expanded program will address prevention, identification, and intervention for domestic and sexual violence, including sexual exploitation/human trafficking, Missing and Murdered AI/AN people, and child/elder abuse and maltreatment. IHCRC’s services are specifically designed to address one of the most important aspects of care for American Indians, attentiveness to the four aspects of an individual’s nature (physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual). The focus on the whole person requires a cross-system collaboration, including behavioral and physical health as well as the social determinants of health. Through cross-collaboration, shared resources, education and community awareness, intervention, and case management, IHCRC will expand the number of Native Americans in the Tulsa MSA who are receiving services for domestic or intimate partner violence. An estimated 200 youth, 150 community members and 200 IHCRC and interagency staff members will be trained during the project. Through expanded identification and availability of services, IHCRC also hopes to increase the number of individuals receiving assistance by 10% each project year. Culturally-sensitive screening, internal and external referrals, evidenced based trauma-informed care, and case management will all ensure that the whole person and the family are being served. Evaluation: IHCRC uses GPRA to measure include clinical care performance measures and behavioral health measures, including Domestic/interpersonal violence screening. IHCRC will be able to provide statistics regarding the number and percent of patients screened and the number and percent of those screening positive. Data will be gathered for referrals (internal and external), public messages, education and training, and screening. The electronic health will be utilized to track therapeutic sessions. Monthly data can be collected on the number of individuals served, referrals made internally, and reason for services (domestic violence, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, trafficking, etc). The project coordinator and therapist will also track information on specific features of each of their cases, including the type of violence experienced.
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