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There is a silent and unrecognized emergent domestic violence-traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (DV-TBI/CTE) pandemic with much more to be learned about how to support potential DV-TBI-CTE victims and survivors and collaborate to address it together. Furthermore, health disparities in DV-TBI/CTE are rampant and are not being adequately addressed due to the paucity of knowledge among service providers and practitioners to address this pervasive health issue. This webinar is tailored to bridge these system of care gaps. It aims to raise awareness and focus on how to address this silent and emergent DV-TBI/CTE pandemic impacting children, women, and men in the United States and globally.    

It is divided into three parts. Part on provides an overview of DV prevalence, disproportionality, health disparities, and challenges and opportunities. It is be followed by an overview of TBI definition, prevalence, types, comorbidities, symptoms, health disparities, treatment, prognosis, and DV-TBI emerging prevalence data. The second part of the webinar concentrates on TBI and its link to CTE and other progressive neurodegenerative diseases impacting the DV population. The main topics include a brief overview of CTE history, definition, description, potential causes, and symptoms stages. In addition, this part highlights current CTE brain science relevant to diagnosis, treatment, and clinical studies.  

The third part of the webinar summarizes how and why DV victims and survivors suffering head injury, CTE, and/or other progressive neurodegenerative diseases are routinely undiagnosed, untreated, and unserved by the system of care. It emphasizes how DV-TBI/CTE victims and survivors might show through symptoms when seeking care and the challenges faced by providers in identifying and supporting them. In addition, this part of the webinar centers on how the system of care can be improved to meet the needs of the DV-TBI/CTE population with the Intersectionality Care, Trauma Informed and Healing Care, and Brain Trauma Responsive Care Models, respectively, and how to address the DV-TBI/CTE emergent pandemic via a collaborative Community-based Model. Throughout the webinar, special emphasis is given to racial, ethnic, and other marginalized victims and survivors of DV-TBI/CTE who face added disparities and inequities in their quest to seek needed care and support. The presenter shares relevant aspects of her personal DV-TBI/CTE story via a PowerPoint presentation that includes selective clips of This Hits Home, the groundbreaking DV-TBI/CTE documentary distributed in 2023, Questions and Answers time, and experiential exercises to highlight learning objectives and create a dynamic webinar. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Summarize the emergent domestic violence-traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (DV-TBI) 
  • Identify DV-TBI and DV-CTE symptoms and related comorbidities, respectively. 
  • Distinguish between concussions and non-concussive head impacts and their association to progressive neurodegenerative diseases such as CTE and Alzheimer’s disease. 
  • Analyze intersectionality and access to health care for underserved DV-TBI/CTE victims and survivors. 
  • Recite current brain science treatment and prognosis for TBI and CTE.  
  • Identify the reasons the system of care is not identifying and providing needed care to DV-TBI/CTE victims and survivors. 
  • Explain how the DV-TBI/CTE health crisis can be addressed with the Community-based Model 
  • Summarize how to support DV-TBI/CTE victims and survivors through the Intersectionality Care, Trauma Informed and Healing Care, and Brain Trauma Responsive Care Models, respectively. 

This training has been approved for 1.5 hours of VSP credit.

This project was supported by Grant No. 15JOVW-24-GG-00893_MUMU awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this program those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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