Available from the National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence (a project of the Family Violence Prevention Fund)
383 Rhode Island Street, Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
Phone: (888) 792-2873
TTY: (800) 595- 4889
Web site:
http://endabuse.org/programs/display.php3?DocID=55

A series of twelve information packets aimed at supporting individuals, organizations and policy makers in developing a comprehensive health care response to domestic violence are available from the Family Violence Prevention Fund's National Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence. Each packet focuses on a specific topic, health care specialty or audience group. Packets include a selection of recent research articles, practical tools, protocols and bibliographies. Among the packets currently available are:

• Battering During Pregnancy--provides background articles, fact sheets on teen pregnancy and violence, and order forms for resource materials.
• Emergency Department--includes a model protocol for setting up an emergency department response to domestic violence, along with an annotated bibliography, background articles, and a survey of California emergency departments.
• Mandatory Reporting Law--includes a policy paper reviewing laws requiring doctors to report abuse-related injuries to police, a discussion of what health providers need to know about mandatory reporting requirements, and an article discussing privacy issues from the perspective of patients and physicians.

Packets for nursing professionals, for primary care physicians and for health care setting administrators and employers are available, along with packets on topics such as general screening of patients and responding to ethnically diverse and lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual communities.

Recommended for health care professionals, domestic violence organizations, researchers and policy makers.