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Violence among LGBTQ: Assessment, advocacy, and response in a Southern state
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Edward Strickler Jr., MA, MA, MPH, CHES
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School of Medicine, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy, Charlottesville, VA
The Virginia Anti-Violence Project (VAVP) serves LGBTQ Virginians experiencing partner, household, sexual, and hate violence. VAVP completed a landmark statewide assessment of violence among LGBTQ Virginians (with nearly 1000 respondents to a community survey); achieved 501.c.3 incorporation (in 2008); and has a record of work supported through substantial awards, including from the Office of Violence Against Women to implement an array of innovative services in one metropolitan area using a social ecological model. VAVP has sustained collaborations with public health agencies and criminal justice agencies and has been a locus for cross-training on public health and ciminal justice issues. This is remarkable effort and progress in a state that Lambda Legal rated at the very bottom of its 2011 Safety Scale (regarding legislative respect for same-sex relationships). The presentation will provide a (a) brief organizational timeline; (b) describe key data and findings from the statewide LGBTQ community assessment; (c) review projects and programs, including highlighting accomplishments, challenges, barriers, and lessons learned. The presentation intends ample time for discussion.
Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Learning Objectives:
Discuss relationships of research findings to a social ecology of LGBTQ partner violence
Describe issues of community-based response to LGBTQ violence in a state with a history of pervasive homophobic and transphobic laws and policies
Keyword(s): Violence & Injury Prevention, Underserved Populations
Presenting author's disclosure statement:Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am founding Board member of Virginia Anti-Violence Project that conducted a statewide assessment of LGBTQ experiences of violence, develops and implements community-based programs responding to LGBTQ experiences of violence, and consults with a variety of state agencies to improve public health, social services, criminal justice, and other systems concerned with preventing and responding to violence.
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.
