Domestic Violence Intervention
The premise of this report is that the author of this report has been given $300,000 over a three-year period to develop a community intervention. The steps involved in this report will include an identification of the problem, a listing of short-term goals, a list of long-term goals and a list of outcome objectives. There will also be the development of a community-based community participatory interdisciplinary plan that will be constructed to address the health gap issue over the next three years. There will be a number of concurrent tactics and approaches including a health fair, the incentives for attending the fair and other events, a media campaign that would work within the target community, a media celebrity or spokesman that is best suited for the task and financial rewards that will be allowed for when community leaders get involved. The report will conclude with the health policy development description. While domestic violence may not seem like a health problem in the traditional sense, it is absolute one when the depth and breadth of the facts are truly explored.
Details
As noted in the introduction, the health problem in question and the one that will be focused on is domestic violence. The rationale for the choice is pretty easy because domestic violence is something that hurts, maims, traumatizes and can even kill its victims. While the victims are usually women, this is not always the case. Indeed, men and even children can be victims as well, although child abuse is usually put in its own echelon for a couple of reasons (Mayo, 2015). Setting metrics for domestic...
Indeed, many women do not report domestic violence even when there is a clear-cut case of it and/or the victim's life is clearly in danger. Many women suffer in silence, blame themselves and/or are too scared to reach out for help from family or, better yet, the police. Even with that, there are a number of goals that can be strived for. First, there needs to be an increase in the amount of incidents that are reported. Again, this is tricky because an actual increase could be an increase in reporting, an increase in the amount of incidents or a combination of both. However, the increase (or decrease) should be pretty consistent from year to year so the adjusted metric should be a twenty percent increase in reporting of domestic violence from the applicable population, that being Indians.
Of course, this is easier said than done as reporting of domestic violence would almost always entail getting the victim (usually a woman) and her kids to a safe place where there is a warm bed and food to eat. This could be a family member's house but there are safe houses and shelters that can be used as well. The campaign involved will take on three main forms. First, there will be an ad campaign that asserts that physical violence or threats relating to the same are never OK. It will be clearly stated that it is abuse and should never be tolerated ... not against women and not against kids. It should be made clear that women have a right and, in the case of children, an obligation to get to a safe place.
The target group, as noted before, will be the Indian population in the Mount Olive area. While…
