Project Description

In an effort to understand how to best identify and address intimate partner violence (IPV) in the context of healthy marriage and relationship education programming, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is conducting the Responding to Intimate Violence in Relationship Programs (RIViR) project. The RIViR project involves (1) synthesizing information on IPV experiences across healthy relationship grantee populations; (2) assessing IPV protocol approaches among current healthy relationship grantees; (3) building an evidence-informed framework for understanding IPV in healthy relationship programs; (4) developing parameters for IPV screening tools and surrounding protocols; and (5) identifying and testing IPV screeners and surrounding protocols in healthy relationship programs. The purpose of this project is to help healthy relationship programs realize their full potential to prevent IPV, ensure victim safety, and connect victims and perpetrators with support. RTI is providing support by building a practical, evidence-informed theoretical framework and parameters for addressing IPV in healthy relationship programs, selecting and validating IPV screening tools and protocols, describing IPV experiences and service needs among healthy relationship participants, and summarizing healthy relationship program approaches to IPV. RTI will also work collaboratively and responsively with the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation.

Key Staff
Project Coordinator
Project Partners
Administration for Children & Families
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