Exploring the Links Between Components of Coordinated Community Responses and Their Impact on Contact With Intimate Partner Violence Services

• Published in: Violence against women 2008-03, Vol.14 (3), p.346-358
• Main Authors: Klevens, Joanne, Baker, Charlene K., Shelley, Gene A., Ingram, Eben M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Battered Women - statistics & numerical data; Communities; Community Health Services - statistics & numerical data; Community-Institutional Relations; Disease control; Domestic violence; Family Violence; Female; Females; Health services; Health Services Needs and Demand - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Intimate partner violence; Middle Aged; Patient Education as Topic; Program Evaluation; Public Assistance - statistics & numerical data; Segmentation; Social Environment; Social response; Social Responsibility; Social Services; Spouse Abuse - statistics & numerical data; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States - epidemiology; Vaccines; Variability; Women; Women's Health Services - organization & administration
• ISSN: 1077-8012; 1552-8448
• DOI: 10.1177/1077801207313968

In the 1990s, concerns with response fragmentation for intimate partner violence (IPV) led to the promotion of coordinated community responses (CCRs) to prevent and control IPV. Evaluation of CCRs has been limited. A previous evaluation of 10 CCRs funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed no overall impact on rates of IPV when compared to matched communities. However, there was great variability in the quality and quantity of CCR efforts between sites and thus potentially different levels of impact. This article establishes the impact of each of the 10 CCRs on women's past-year exposure to IPV and contact with IPV services and explores the associations between specific CCR components and contact with IPV services.