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Improving Services to African American Survivors of IPV

From the Voices of Recipients of Culturally Specific Services

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Researchers have found that many services designed to assist survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) take a mainstream, color-blind approach to their interventions. Several authors have indicated a need for culturally specific IPV interventions to adequately address the issue of IPV within the African American community. This exploratory study was designed to ascertain, from African American survivors, what their experiences were with mainstream IPV interventions and how their experience with a culturally specific domestic violence agency was different from those experiences. Overall, women described mostly problematic experiences with mainstream services and positive experiences with the culturally specific agency.

Key Words: African American survivors • culturally specific interventions • intimate partner violence

This version was published on January 1, 2009

Violence Against Women, Vol. 15, No. 1, 57-80 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801208328375


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