Strengthening What Works: Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
A Progress Report
Dates of Project: February 2009 to February 2013
Field of Work: Evaluation of programs to prevent intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities
Problem Synopsis: Few programs to prevent intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities have been evaluated and organizations offering these programs have little evaluation capacity.
Synopsis of the Work: Strengthening What Works provides funding and technical assistance to help eight organizations evaluate their programs to prevent intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities, while building their capacity to evaluate other programs in the future.
Key Findings/Results: Two years into the program:
- Grantee staffs understand how to create a logic model and have developed logic models for their projects.
- Grantee staffs have developed, piloted, and fielded their evaluation instruments and are gathering data.
- The grantee organizations have begun to develop a "culture of evaluation."
Recommended Reading
- Refugees in Metropolitan Atlanta Get Help With Family Violence
- Preventing Partner Violence in Refugee and Immigrant Communities
- Intimate Partner Violence and Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Disorders Among American Indian Women from Southwest Tribes in Primary Care
- Reducing Maternal Intimate Partner Violence After the Birth of a Child
- Increasing Understanding of Immigrant and Refugee Families
- Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities
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