6th Biennial National Conference on Health and Domestic Violence

Website/URL: http://www.nchdv.org/

Organized By: Futures without Violence (formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund)

The conference aims to advance the health care system's response to domestic violence. It attracts the nation's leading medical, public health and family violence experts from across the U.S. with increased international participation. Workshops, scientific posters, and plenary sessions highlight the latest research and most innovative clinical responses to domestic violence, with a focus on the work being done by physicians, physician assistants, dentists, nurses, nurse midwives, mental and behavioral health providers, social workers, domestic violence experts, researchers and others. An exhibit hall features local and national resources. Funding is primarily from the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.