Project Connect seeks to develop comprehensive models of public health prevention and intervention to better enable early childhood home visitors and reproductive health workers to identify and respond to clients experiencing sexual/domestic violence with a focus on reproductive control and the impact of abuse on children and families. For more on Project Connect click here>>>
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Project Radar is a provider-focused initiative to promote the assessment and prevention of intimate partner violence in the health care setting. Through the RADAR initiative, the Virginia Department of Health seeks to enable Virginia's health care providers to recognize and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing them access to:
, seeks to develop comprehensive models of public health prevention and intervention that can lead to improved health and safety for victims of sexual and
domestic violence. In Virginia, one of ten Project Connect sites nationwide, the project's focus lies in family planning/reproductive health and home
visiting settings. The Virginia Department of Health's Division of Prevention and Health Promotion, in partnership with the Division of Child and
Adolescent Health, the Virginia Home Visiting Consortium, and the Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance, has developed assessment
strategies and tools, training curricula, educational materials and policy/procedure guidance to better enable family planning clinic staff and home
visitors to identify and provide support and referral to individuals and families impacted by sexual and domestic violence.