Welcome
The IU Family Violence Institute is a comprehensive collaboration of researchers, educators, and clinicians who work in the area of family violence. Family violence includes child abuse, domestic or intimate partner violence, and elder abuse. FVI is an IUPUI Signature Center whose goal is to work to unite IU School of Medicine, Riley Hospital for Children, IU health professions, social science schools, and community advocates to provide education to health professionals, legal professionals, social workers, teachers, lay people, and anyone else who is interested about all aspects of family violence. Members of FVI will work in at least one of the following areas: Research, Clinical Services, Education, or Policy.
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Child Abuse
The most recent data available from 2007 indicates that nearly 800,000 children were found to be victims of child abuse or neglect. Sadly, research clearly shows, this a “tip of the iceberg” with the vast majority of cases not being rising to the level of identification by the authorities. Children rely on their caregivers to provide the basic necessities such as clothing, shelter, food and medical attention. When these basic needs aren’t met, harm may result. When caregivers, through an act of commission or omission, cause harm to a child or the potential for harm, that child is the victim of child maltreatment.
Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV), also called domestic violence (DV), is a public health epidemic in the United States. It affects individuals from all racial/ethnic groups, all socioeconomic groups, all educational levels. Every day approximately four women die in the U.S. as a result of IPV. In Indiana, between 2005 and 2006, 79 women are known to have died from IPV. Over 9200 women and children were housed in domestic violence shelters around the state that year, and more than 28,000 protective orders were filed.
Elder Abuse
Elder abuse is the last part of the continuum of family violence. Sadly, as many as 450,000 elders have suffered each year from this problem. The perpetrators are often care-givers, whether they be family members, health care providers of some sort (e.g., nursing home staff, home health aides), or other people in the elder’s environment, such as neighbors, friends, delivery people, etc. Elder abuse includes more than physical, sexual, psychological, or financial abuse, though all can and do occur; it also includes neglect.
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