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Abstract #115760

Nanette L. Yragui, MS, School of Nursing, Oregon Health & Science University, 3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Rd., Mail Code: SN-4S, Portland, OR 97239, 503-494-7572, yraguin@ohsu.edu, Leslie B. Hammer, PhD, Department of Psychology, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751, and Marc Weinstein, PhD, Labor Education Research Center, University of Oregon, 1289 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR OR.

Employers vary widely in their policies and practices related to the kind of assistance they provide to employees encountering personal difficulties. This is seen particularly clearly in the area intimate partner violence (IPV). In this paper, we present the findings of focus group interviews and individual interviews in English and Spanish with individuals with front-line management experience. The purpose of the interviews was to explore the array of responses of these individuals and their organizations have to employees who confront IPV. Insights from these managers in low-wage service industries will be used to help develop a workplace intervention aimed at providing Latina and non-Latina low-wage women an additional set of resources to help ameliorate the consequences of IPV. These focus groups were conducted as part of a larger NIH-supported project to create and evaluate community-partnered responses to IPV for the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify several ways community partnerships can contribute to the overall success of applied research and to the development of the engaged communities.
• Articulate and discuss the relationship between workplace culture towards IPV and battered women’s health and safety.
• List 5 subscales of the IPV-OCS and articulate the relevance of each in relation to the workplace.

Keywords: Vulnerable Populations,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.