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Measuring healing on Intimate Partner Violence

Summary

In collaboration with La Clínica del Pueblo (LCDP, a federally qualified community health center serving Latine immigrant communities), I am examining the role of La Clínica’s model, including the role of Promotoras de Salud in mitigating the mental health impacts of IPV and promoting healing among Central American Immigrant IPV survivors. Promotoras are recruited from the community and are trusted individuals who empower their peers through education and connections to health and social resources in Spanish speaking communities. While promotoras have been shown to be a successful public health intervention in a variety of domains (e.g. breast cancer screening, COVID-19 vaccine uptake, HIV/AIDS testing), the impact of promotoras on the health and resilience of IPV survivors has been less investigated. At LCDP, promotoras provide IPV survivors with peer navigation to legal services, social support, and accompaniment. In collaboration with LCDP, I am developing measures to assess resilience, healing, and hopefulness among IPV survivors after working with promotoras. Currently, such measures are scarce in the IPV public health literature. We will examine whether a culturally rooted intervention (promotoras) can help mitigate the harmful mental health impacts of IPV while fostering resilience and healing. 

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