Penelope Morrison, Katherine McLean, Richard Wentling, Elizabeth Schachte, Bobur Rakhmatullaev
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Abstract
We interviewed 40 individuals working across service domains (e.g., healthcare, criminal justice) to understand their perspectives on the barriers and facilitators to employing a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in settings which serve women with co-occurring intimate partner violence and opioid use disorder (co-IPV/OUD). Providers cited "buy-in" from all stakeholders, establishing shared goals, objectives, and practices across stakeholders, training on IPV and OUD, and/or the need for additional staff, and funding as key considerations for MLPs in this context. Our study finds that MLPs represent a viable and promising potential pathway to providing more co-located or coordinated care for women with co-IPV/OUD.
期刊介绍:
Violence against Women is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. The journal assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female circumcision, and female sexual slavery.