Trauma-informed and relational approaches to service provision: building community-based project capacity to respond to interpersonal violence through a national initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community services that engage and service marginalized families can act as an important entry point for mothers and children experiencing interpersonal violence. The purpose of this study was to use an initiative that included training, implementation, and evaluation of an interpersonal violence intervention to understand changes in the capacity of service providers in community-based organizations to use trauma-informed and relational approaches to support mothers and children experiencing violence in relationships.

Methods

Participants (N = 27) were service providers from 14 community-based organizations across Canada, who had been trained to implement an interpersonal violence intervention with mothers in their communities. Using a phenomenological approach, p

SUBMITTER: Singh CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7706256 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature