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103-322, the federal government initiated a broach set of programs focused on violence against women, many of which will be administered by law enforcement, prosecution, and victim services organizations. Hotline services, victim advocate programs, and shelter resources represent important community-based programs that can respond to the immediate needs of women in crisis as a result of violence.
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Investigators have difficulty obtaining funding because their research proposals often compete against those from more established fields that can build on an infrastructure developed through decades of prior research activity. Investigators may also lack opportunities to learn from relevant research in areas that can enrich the clevelopment of research on violence, such as deterrence theory in criminal behavior, the study of community-based organizational behavior, the effectiveness of formal and informal controls in governing individual and group behavior, research on the use of community services, adolescent health, the cultural context of coercion and power, and program evaluation, particularly models of community responses that have been (leveloped in such fields as substance abuse prevention ~see, e.g., Kaftarian and Hansen, 19941.
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Other neglected health care fields are the areas of pediatrics, aclolescent medicine, sports medicine, and the military and veterans' health care systems, which often have very broad access to young men but which virtually ignore any attempt to iclentify risk factors for violent behavior in the course of primary care treatment. All too often, the result in health care is a "field" that sees fragmented aspects of physical and mental health problems that share common risk factors and common origins but lacks a means of connecting them and the presenting symptoms to a recommended course of treatment.
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sexual assault, in training, continuing education, and certification requirements for a variety of professions, such as law, law enforcement, nursing, social work, and education {Minnesota Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse, 19951. A topic that is often missing in the training of both researchers and practitioners is information on diverse population groups at the same time that both researchers and practitioners are frequently exhorted to be sensitive to cultural differences and to be culturally competent.
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Training is needed to prepare researchers and practitioners to meet the challenges of culturally competent research and interventions, by exposing them to the relevant literature, teaching qualitative research techniques as well as quantitative ones, and providing opportunities to interact with the communities they are studying or serving. Training more minority researchers and service providers may also be beneficial in broadening research and intervention contexts to include underserved and understudies]
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million annually to research and evaluation projects on family violence National Institute of Justice, 1995 J which includes child abuse, battering, and elder abuse.
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Families awarded funding to establish the national Domestic Violence Resource Network, composed of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, the Battered Women's Justice Project, the Health Resource Center on Domestic Violence, and the Resource Center on Child Protection and Custody. The members of the Resource Network collect information and support services for battered women and their children.
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For example, the Domestic Violence Prevention Project in New York City received initial funding from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the New York Community Trust, the Norman Foundation, and the Conrad N Hilton Foundation, and the Ford Foundation supported evaluation of the project.
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The panel recognizes that prevention is a long-term strategy" that research must continue on criminal justice interventions with individual perpetrators of violence against women and on social service, health, and mental health interventions for victims-but it should guicle the overall effort in this field.
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Examples of such efforts include the CDC-funded Injury Control Research Centers, the NIMH-fundecT Minority Mental Health Research Centers, the ChiTciren's Safety Network funded! by the Maternal and ChiTc3 Health Bureau, and the NIMH-funded Preventive Intervention Research Centers SPIRO.
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carry out program evaluations. The history of past research endeavors leads the panel to question whether topics relating to women's experiences of violence wouIcT receive adequate attention without resources earmarked specifically for them.
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Technical assistance from the centers would also help to make research findings accessible to service providers; could support technical training programs for service provider agency personnel; and could possibly provide seed money for service providers to conduct small-scale case studies or descriptive reviews of selected program interventions.
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RESEAR CH INFRASTR UCTURE 155 The research centers would contribute to the field by in corporating interdisciplinary areas of knowledge; fostering exchanges between and among sciences and the humanities in the development of theory, measurement, social constructs, and policy recommendations; and assisting service providers to develop and carry out well-designed program evaluations. More specifically, the role of the Violence Against Women Research Centers would include the follow~ng: · to foster a dialogue among the disciplines about the nature of violence against women and its relationship to other forms of violence and injury and to develop a conceptual framework that could assess the development of this field; · to stimulate creative approaches in encouraging service providers' collaboration with researchers on the design and evaluation of program interventions; · to foster collaborative research efforts among researchers from different disciplines and institutions and between research institutions and service providers; · to develop training programs for young investigators and to provide curriculum materials to other training institutions; · to encourage the training of minority researchers; · to provide a national focus for public forums designed to disseminate research knowledge about violence against women; and · to provide technical assistance to service providers.
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These new Violence Against Women Research Centers and their technical assistance functions would cover issues of rape and sexual assault as well as domestic violence and would complement the efforts of the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence.
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