Safety Planning With Marginalized Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges of Conducting Safety Planning Intervention Research With Marginalized Women.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects marginalized women in the United States. This calls for effective safety planning strategies to reduce the risk for future revictimization and address safety needs of survivors from marginalized groups. This review identified types of interventions that incorporated safety planning and were successful in reducing the risk for future revictimization among IPV survivors from diverse groups, examined elements of safety planning in effective interventions, and described challenges or limitations in safety planning intervention research with marginalized women.

Policy, Wellness, and Native American Survivorship.

Native American women and femme-identifying individuals are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted as members of the general population. Given the high prevalence of violence experienced by members of this community, health care professionals and support staff must better understand social determinants of violence, barriers those experiencing violence face when seeking health care, and actions they can take to promote and implement change within systems that improve services.