This component of the toolkit provides more in-depth educational sources of information on traumatic brain injury, its care and management, and its prevalence and impact in survivors of intimate partner violence.
Resources for Service Providers
- Training
Concussion Awareness Training Tool (CATT) Online: Introduction to IPV and TBI for Women’s Support Worker
This 45 minute online training module was designed to provide women’s support workers with information they need for responding to and managing concussion.
- Website
SOAR Project
SOAR (Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury through Research) is a multi-disciplinary, community-engaged, non-profit initiative that explores the intersection of brain injury (BI) and intimate partner violence (IPV), and applies scientific evidence to increase awareness, and improve supports and services for survivors.
- Website
FOCUSED Communication Strategy
The FOCUSED communication strategy is an acronym to help you remember strategies for successful communication with adults with TBI.
- Website
PINK Concussions
PINK Concussions is the first non-profit organization to focus on brain injury in women and girls. This website contains support groups, educational materials for medical clinics, and current research on female brain injury. Clinicians, direct service providers and/or researchers are also welcome to join the Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury Task Force which provides a space for learning, inspiration, and collaboration between brain injury experts and domestic violence/intimate partner violence professionals.
- Documents
Intimate Partner Violence Traumatic Brain Injury Medical Provider Resource
This document was developed by an inter-disciplinary team of clinicians, researchers and advocates to serve as a preliminary resource to assist medical providers (including physicians and nurse practitioners) providing medical assessment, management, and follow-up to patients who sustain acute intimate partner violence- related head trauma.