IPV: Best Practices and Information

NEW: Having Conversations

• Talking to Adolescents About Healthy Relationships
  This blog post shares resources to strengthen health care providers’ capacity for having conversations with on relationship abuse and trafficking. (Futures Without Violence, July 8, 2026)

NEW: Toolkits

• Prevent, Assess, and Respond: A Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Toolkit for Health Centers and Domestic Violence Programs
  This toolkit addresses building partnerships, adopting evidence-based interventions, training providers and staff, and more (Futures Without Violence, 2024)

Training

• NEW: Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation
  Providing training and technical assistance to health centers to develop and implement evidence-based strategies, protocols, and partnerships to prevent, identify, and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) and human trafficking (HT).
• Psychological First Aid and Skills for Psychological Recovery
  Promising practices for disaster behavioral health response and recovery that are intended for use with children, adolescents, parents and caretakers, families, and adults who are survivors or witnesses exposed to disaster or terrorism as well as first responders and other disaster relief workers.

Privacy

• NEW: 21st Century CURES Act: A Summary and Recommendations to Promote Patient Privacy for Survivors
  Fact sheet on federal rules on the sharing of health care information and data went into effect in April 2021, stemming from the 21st Century CURES Act (Futures Without Violence, 2024)
• NEW: Explanation of Benefits & Safeguarding Sensitive Health Information
  Memo that looks at Explanation of Benefit (EOB) documents, explains the concerns about how they handle sensitive information, and explores possible solutions (Futures Without Violence, 2026)
• A Practical Guide on Intimate Partner Violence, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation and Technology Tools
  Guiding principles to develop safe documentation for IPV, human trafficking, and exploitation and best practices to protect patient privacy and confidentiality (Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation & Futures Without Violence, 2025)