This article describes how a self-assessment of maternal and child health programs in a state health department led to a statewide training initiative on domestic violence, sexual assault, and reproductive coercion for family planning providers. Key training concepts, lessons learned, and future directions are discussed.

This article describes the process of implementing and revising intimate partner violence screening in three large, urban family planning centers over a decade. Monitoring, research, and improvements to the process over the past decade are discussed along with future directions for research and practice.

The intersections between sex trade, violence, and health have significant implications for appropriate clinical care as well as violence prevention and service delivery. This article provides a brief overview of the literature on health and violence among women involved in sex trade and outlines future directions for research and programmatic efforts.

Coerced, unprotected sex can increase young women’s risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. A social climate of inequitable gender norms reduces young women’s sexual relationship power and increases their vulnerability to condom coercion. In this qualitative study, in-depth interviews were conducted with young women to learn about their experiences, perspectives, and the strategies they used to reduce unsafe sex in healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Rebecca: Thanks so much for taking time to talk with me today about all the great work you are doing at Rose Brooks. In fact, we have been so impressed with your work and the direction it is taking with the public health-domestic violence shelter relationship that the Family Violence Prevention Fund staff have started calling your approach to this work the “Rose Brooks Model.” The model refers to your partnership with local residency and family planning programs providing on-site health services at the shelter and the new assessment you are doing for reproductive coercion as part of this program. Can you tell me more about your work?