Health Care Providers

• Stanford School of Medicine: Domestic Abuse
  Provides practical how-to information for health-care professionals including screening tools, information on referring patients, California reporting law, and other resources.
• LEAP: Look to End Abuse Permanently
  Provides materials for both health care providers and patients including training materials, such as podcasts and videos, screening tools, brochures for pregnant women and informational materials for display in providers’ clinics.
• Current Management of Domestic Violence: Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
  Online training on screening, recognizing patterns of abuse, assessing IPV victims’ safety, reporting and referring IPV victims, recognizing and supporting patients’ readiness to change their violent situation.
• Futures Without Violence: Health
  Provides information on health care public policy related to domestic violence, and materials and web resources for health care providers.
• Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse from Futures Without Violence

• Guiding Principles for Improving Health Care Response to Domestic Violence (pdf)
• Medical Power and Control Wheel (pdf)
• Empowerment Power and Control Wheel (pdf)
• Definition of Cultural Competency (pdf)
• Mandatory Reporting and Domestic Violence (pdf)

*Please see What is Relationship Abuse for additional information on types of abuse, children and dynamics of relationship abuse.

Screening

• Screening for Intimate Partner Violence in the Primary Care, OB/GYN, Pediatric and Mental Health Settings (pdf)
• Domestic Violence Screening Tips (pdf)
• Screening and Interviewing Strategies for Intimate Partner Violence (pdf)
• Red Flags (pdf)

Reporting

• Mandatory Reporting Tips (pdf)
• California Mandatory Reporting Law: A Summary (pdf)

Documentation

• Essential Elements of Documentation of Domestic Violence in Health Records (pdf)

Assessment

• Assessing Lethal and Extremely Dangerous Behavior (pdf)

Safety Planning and Resources

• Safety Planning with Domestic Violence Victims (pdf)
• How to Begin Safety Planning (pdf)
• Safety Plan and Discharge Instructions (pdf)
• Local Resources (pdf)

Intervention

• Domestic Violence Intervention Tips (pdf)

Because the vast majority of domestic violence is committed by men against women, this page may contain the female gender pronoun when referring to the abused person. All the information in this section is relevant for male victims and for individuals in same-gender relationships. In addition, please see our resources on same-gender relationships.