227139 Deconstructing Caribbean Masculinity to End Domestic Violence

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Rohan Jeremiah, MPH, ABD , Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George's, Grenada
The United Nation's Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)'s Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) was established in 2005 to safeguard the rights of women by reducing the prevalence of domestic violence and risky behavior patterns among Caribbean men. This poster presents preliminary results of an ongoing two-year research project that evaluates the PFP program and its use of a Caribbean-specific intervention model. Our analysis is based on a mix-method approach that compares the impact of previous and current men, their partners and several community stakeholders. As global public health program evaluators, we describe specifically how men embark on a recovery process to reconfigure their masculinity with new life skills that illustrates how to eliminate the use of violence and embrace healthy behavioral practices. The results of this evaluation will facilitate the importance of the recovery process in protecting the health and well being of women and families in the legal system.

Learning Areas:
Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Evaluate how Caribbean men transform their masculinity identities based on a domestic violence diversion program that focuses on diminishing violent incidents between partners.

Keywords: Domestic Violence, Behavior Modification

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Rohan D. Jeremiah
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.