THE MISSING PIECE: The Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury and Strangulation on Survivors and the Programs that Serve Them

THE MISSING PIECE: The Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury and Strangulation on Survivors and the Programs that Serve Them

We have known for decades in the domestic violence movement that victims experience terrible and traumatic physical violence – often directed at the head, neck and face – through blows to the head or strangulation. We are just discovering how that violence impacts the brain. Brain injury caused by domestic violence

is rarely identified and almost never immediately treated, and results in short and long term physical, emotional, and cognitive consequences that can impact every area of a person’s life. You will hear from survivor Paula Walters, national speaker and founder of Standing Courageous, about her decade long journey of getting her brain injury identified and treated, and learning from her about how to best support survivors impacted by brain injury. You will be equipped to use the evidence-based CARE (Connect, Acknowledge, Respond, Evaluate) framework as well as practical, hands-on CARE tools to address brain injury with survivors developed by the Ohio Domestic Violence Network in partnership with The Ohio State University.