Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. Domestic Violence Prevention Program - Many American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) living in California have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). According to the 2015 California Tribal Behavioral Risk Factor Community Survey Summary Report, 35.8% of survey respondents (n=919) reported ever being hit, slapped, pushed, kicked, or hurt in any way by an intimate partner. This statistic is higher than the national statistics, which according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, is one in three females (33%) and one in four males (25%) experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime. To confront this disparity, the California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc. (CRIHB) proposes completing a Domestic Violence Prevention (DVP) project via Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention, Advocacy, and Coordinated Community Responses. The service area of the DVP project encompasses rural, Tribal California Indian communities, specifically Tribal Health Programs (THPs) serving federally recognized Tribes affiliated with CRIHB. The DVP project will work with THPs, Tribal communities, and Tribal organizations to build knowledge and increase the capacity of staff, providers, and community members to raise awareness, eliminate silence, recognize the signs of IPV, and develop/strengthen local programs that provide advocacy and prevention of IPV. CRIHB has developed a program specifically tailored to the unique circumstances of rural, Tribal California Indian communities and has extensive experience in providing services to rural, Tribal communities, the focus of this project. DVP will build upon the behavioral health programming focused on healthy relationships that CRIHB has provided through suicide prevention, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and sexual health programs. Through DVP, CRIHB will provide more focused outreach and education regarding IPV, integrating AIAN ceremonies, values, and practices in its approaches to ensure community buy-in and success of the program. The DVP project will consist of multiple levels of services to provide to the various communities CRIHB serves. Services will be implemented at their appropriate readiness level, including targeted outreach to those at-risk" for IPV, training on evidence-based strategies, and workshops to provide spaces of healing for those who have experienced, witnessed, or been privy to IPV. CRIHB's DVP Project Director and Project Coordinator will work with the THPs, Tribal communities, and Tribal organizations to determine local needs and develop outreach plans, training schedules, possible coalitions, and new/revised policies. The Project Director and Project Coordinator will work with the Program Evaluator to determine the efficacy of project activities to develop plans for improvement, leading to more quality services, greater awareness of IPV in Tribal communities, and an ultimate reduction in IPV in California Indian Country.
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