Health Care Professionals

Health care professionals are uniquely positioned to identify dating violence among young people, as TDV may have several adverse health consequences. This section includes documents that recommend routine assessment, promote skills for recognizing the effects of TDV, and provide suggestions on teen dating violence prevention and intervention.

Futures Without Violence has a variety of clinical tools and educational videos for health care providers who are interested in incorporating evidence-based and trauma-informed practices for universal education, as well as assessment and response to intimate partner violence and reproductive coercion.

Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse - An Integrated Approach to Prevention and Intervention (Second Edition)

This document focuses on the critical role of the adolescent health care provider in preventing, identifying and addressing adolescent relationship abuse. These guidelines are applicable to providers working in a wide range of settings serving adolescents.

Electronic Palm Teen Dating Violence & Childhood Exposure to IPV Assessment Tool

This new assessment tool for childhood exposure to intimate partner violence and adolescent dating violence is available in two formats, for either the iSilo or Documents to Go text readers.

Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence: Consensus Recommendations for Child and Adolescent Health

This document highlights the need for child health care providers to become actively involved in domestic violence prevention and provides recommendations for regular and universal screening for domestic violence in child health care settings.

The Connection between Dating Violence and Unhealthy Behaviors

This fact sheet presents data from various studies to show the connection between dating violence and unhealthy behaviors.

Reproductive Health and Partner Violence Guidelines: An Integrated Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion

This guide focuses on the transformative role of the reproductive health care provider in identifying and addressing intimate partner violence (IPV) and reproductive coercion.

Did You Know Your Relationship Affects Your Health? A Train the Trainers Curriculum on Addressing IPV, Reproductive and Sexual Coercion

This curriculum focuses on the crucial role of the health care provider in identifying and addressing IPV, reproductive coercion, and sexual coercion, providing training, tools, and resources to help health care providers address these complex and sometimes uncomfortable issues.

Young Moms Module: Assessment and Safety Planning for Domestic Violence in Home Visitation

The Young Moms module represents a recent expansion of the Healthy Moms Happy Babies (HMHB) Curriculum and recognizes that the field of home visitation requires new tools to meet the needs of adolescent mothers. This module will train home visitors on how to screen, refer and document these activities as part of routine programming.

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