Foundational Building Blocks for IPV Risk Assessment Implementation: Cultural Responsiveness Key Takeaways

Understanding your community is vital when implementing intimate partner violence (IPV) risk assessments. These assessments often don’t account for community-specific factors, which can result in undesirable impacts on marginalized groups. Therefore, it’s imperative to incorporate the perspectives and needs of the communities being served by the assessment or model in use. Drawn from the Foundational Building Blocks for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Risk Assessment Implementation: Cultural Responsiveness webinar, this factsheet highlights 5 key takeaways for ensuring cultural responsiveness is present in IPV risk assessment implementation.