Last December, I was having a conversation with a friend about how many people are actually affected by intimate partner violence (IPV). When I said that 1 out of 4 women had experienced some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime, my friend responded, “But, I don’t know anyone who has been abused.” My response: “You just don’t think you know anyone. It is hidden so often, and we often don’t think that intimate partner violence affects our friends and families.”
Select Month: June 2012
Moving Intimate Partner Violence Stories and Science to Action
Categories: CDC Injury Center, Violence Prevention
June 18th, 2012 11:15 am ET - Dr. Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Seeing My World through A Safer Lens
Categories: CDC Injury Center, Home & Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
June 13th, 2012 10:19 am ET -
We are excited to see how injury and violence professionals, students, and the general public can showcase what injury and violence prevention looks like in their own communities through the “Seeing My World through a Safer Lens” video contest. This challenge will award $500 per category (Student View, Injury and Violence Professional View, and General Public View) for the video that best reflects a prevention story about Violence Prevention, Home and Recreational Safety, Motor Vehicle Safety, or Traumatic Brain Injury.
Recovering from TBI – Why I Do What I Do at the Injury Center
Categories: CDC Injury Center, Motor Vehicle Safety, Traumatic Brain Injury
June 5th, 2012 2:08 pm ET -
Guest blogger: Jessica Burke
I could be a web developer anywhere. So, why do I choose to work at CDC’s Injury Center?
It’s because I know what it means to suffer a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). And I know how important it is to help prevent other people from going through what I went through one Thursday in August 2005.
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