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Deborah Jean McClelland, MLS¹, Tessa Mayorga, MPH, BSN¹, Maia Ingram, MPH², Montserrat Caballero³, Laura Horsley⁴, and Maureen Domogala⁵. (1) Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210228, Tucson, AZ 85724, 520-626-7946, jmc@rho.arizona.edu, (2) Program Director, Community Based Evaluation Projects, University of Arizona, 2501 E Elm Street, Tucson, AZ 85716, (3) Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, Su Voz Vale, 101 W. Irvington Rd., Office 4A, Tucson, AZ 85714, (4) House of Hope, Catholic Community Services, PO Box 1218, Douglas, AZ 85608, (5) Arizona Governor’s Office for Children, Youth and Families, 1700 W. Washington, Ste.101, Phoenix, AZ 85007

The Rural Health Office at the University of Arizon Mel and Enic Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH) has worked extensively with border counties in Southern Arizona since 1995 to provide technical assistance and evaluation services to further policy development and community-based planning efforts regarding family violence prevention and culturally appropriate service availability, in order to ensure the safety of all women and their families in Arizona's rural communities. Most recently, MEZCOPH has worked closely with the Governor's Office for Children, Youth and Families and local coordinated response teams and battered immigrant women task forces in Arizona's southern counties to develop effective, multidisciplinary partnerships whose focus is to eliminate barriers to needed services for battered immigrant women and their families in a political climate that is increasingly anti-immigrant, and in an environment that is increasingly militarized in regards to immigration and homeland security. This presentation will discuss challentes and effective strategies to building multidisciplinary partnerships with health/human services, victim/legal services and law enforcement agencies focusing on community safety, propose the appropriate role of public health practitioners in providing tecnical assistance to community-based efforts to develop policy that will ensure victim/survivor safety, and portray the unique challenges inherent in addressing federal, state and local policies at odds with one another in terms of immigrant rights and access to basic human services.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to

• Identify effective strategies to build multidisciplinary partnerships with health/human services, victim/legal services and law enforcement agencies focusing on community safety
• Define the role of public health practitioners in providing tecnical assistance to community-based efforts to develop policy that will ensure victim/survivor safety
• Discuss unique challenges inherent in addressing federal, state and local policies at odds with one another in terms of immigrant rights and access to basic human services

Keywords: Violence Prevention, Immigration

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

Recorded presentation