Project
RADAR is a provider-focused
initiative to promote the assessment and prevention of intimate
partner violence in the health care setting. Through the
RADAR initiative, the Division of Injury & Violence
Prevention at the Virginia Department of Health seeks to
enable Virginia's health care providers to recognize and
respond to intimate partner violence (IPV) by providing
them access to:
Intimate
partner violence (IPV)
is defined as a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors
that may include inflicted physical injury, psychological
abuse, sexual assault, progressive social isolation, stalking,
deprivation, intimidation, and threats. These behaviors
are perpetrated by someone who is, was, or wishes to be
involved in an intimate or dating relationship with an adult
or adolescent, and are aimed at establishing control by
one partner over another.
