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Co-occurring Social Service Delivery Needs of Women who have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence: Substance Use, Mental Illness and Risk for HIV/AIDS infection

Principal Investigator:
Michele Rountree, Ph.D.

This study investigates the co-occurrence of substance use, mental illness and risk factors for HIV/AIDS infection among women currently in shelter. To date, the researcher has collected both quantitative and qualitative data from forty-one women residing in shelter who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Domestic violence shelters have historically acted as "portals of entry" to community resources and services for women who have been victims of intimate partner violence, even as the in-house services those shelters offer have expanded. As shelters have expanded, increasing numbers of the women are experiencing a complicated array of overlapping problems such as mental illness, substance abuse and risk for HIV/AIDS. The objectives of the study are to explore through narrative, the co-occurring service delivery needs of women in shelter, investigate whether these needs seem to influence each other; an identify whether the social service delivery system provides comprehensive approaches based upon co-occurring needs of clients.

Duration: 9/1/06 - 8/31/07

Sponsor:
UT Office of the Vice President for Research

Keywords: domestic violence, sexual violence, community violence, sexual abuse