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IDVAAC Community Insights reports represent a major contribution to the evolving literature on domestic violence among African Americans. These reports offer useful information for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers concerned about domestic violence in African American communities. For practitioners, these reports explore issues related to barriers and challenges to accessing formal services and community perceptions of formal service providers. Practitioners can use these reports to gain a better understanding of the range of issues that intersect with domestic violence and ultimately impact the effectiveness domestic violence intervention. These reports also offer strategies as to how to address some of these issues on the individual and community levels.
For policy makers, these reports offer a number of societal and macro level issues that converge to exacerbate domestic violence among African Americans. For researchers, these reports offer a number of issues upon which to establish a research agenda. Understanding how historical trauma impacts domestic violence among African Americans warrants greater research, particularly as it connects with contemporary oppression and discrimination. Other areas that warrant greater attention include connection between domestic violence in the African American community and gender roles and gender socialization, parenting practices, faith- and community-based responses to domestic violence, and effective culturally-based or culturally competent approaches.
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