Toolkit Overview - Cook County Department of Public Health

Free and Low-Cost IPV Education and Awareness Materials
To promote IPV awareness with patients, CCDPH recommends SCC hospitals display IPV
brochures, posters and safety/shoe cards in restrooms, waiting rooms and examination rooms.
Posting a variety of information about IPV makes a statement that hospital personnel are
approachable and prepared to discuss IPV with patients and that IPV is considered a health issue.
Posters (titles include):
• Fathering After Violence
• Coaching Boys to Men
• LGTB: Contrary to Popular Belief
• When You Bring Your New Baby Home
• When Mom Gets Abused Her Children Suffer Too
• Feeling Alone Don’t Know Who to Talk To
• Nobody Deserves to be Abused
• Are You Tired of Making Excuses for Him
Free posters can be ordered from Futures Without Violence for $5 shipping
at:http://fvpfstore.stores.yahoo.net/healthposters.html
Brochures:
The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV) provides brochures and
informational booklets on intimate partner violence, including:
• Illinois Domestic Violence Act”
• Handbook for Domestic Violence Victims” (in English, Polish and Korean)
Free and low-cost IPV materials can be ordered
at:http://www.ilcadv.org/resources/Public_Education_Brochures/catalog.asp
Health Saftey Cards for Patients:
• Reproductive Health Safety Card at: http://fvpfstore.stores.yahoo.net/reproductive-healthsafety-cards.html
• Patient Safety Card for Women at: http://fvpfstore.stores.yahoo.net/new-patient-safetycard-for-women.html
• Home Visitation Safety Cards at: http://fvpfstore.stores.yahoo.net/home-visitation-safetycards1.html
• Hanging Out or Hooking Up Safety Card for teens
at: http://fvpfstore.stores.yahoo.net/hanging-out-or-hooking-up.html