• Summarize recent research on the prevalence and health effects of IPV during and around the time of pregnancy.
• Describe current IPV screening and intervention recommendations with women of childbearing age.
• Implement interventions intended to increase women’s safety and to mitigate the effects of IPV during pregnancy
• Examine evidence-based promising practices including “empowerment counseling.”

Faculty

Diane K. Bohn, RN, CNM, PhD

Faculty Bio

Dr. Bohn has been active in the violence against women and children arenas for over 25 years. Her work began in 1986 with a position as Nurse Counselor in one of the first hospital-based family violence programs in the country. Since that time Dr. Bohn has been active in addressing lifetime physical and sexual abuse and health consequences in many capacities including clinician, educator, researcher, author, program director and program evaluator. Much of her clinical, research and programmatic work has been in Indian Country. Dr. Bohn is currently the Director of the Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative SANE/SART Program at the IHS facility in Cass Lake Minnesota where she is also engaged in clinical midwifery practice. Prior to this position she was the first director of the Family Advocacy of Northern Minnesota where she developed the Child Advocacy Center and SANE Program. She was Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing graduate programs for 5 years. She is the past president of the Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, and past chair of the American College of Nurse Midwives Committee on Violence Against Women. Dr. Bohn received her BSN from the University of Minnesota and her PhD from Rush University, Chicago.