TY - JOUR AU - Mason, Robin AU - Wolf, Marni AU - O’Rinn, Susan AU - Ene, Gabrielle PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/12 TI - Making connections across silos: intimate partner violence, mental health, and substance use JO - BMC Women's Health SP - 29 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Untold numbers of women worldwide are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) with a substantial number of these experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use problems. Despite the complex interconnections among these problems, funding mechanisms and organizational structures and mandates have been designed to address just a single, focal problem. One of the challenges for frontline providers is the lack of effective, evidence-informed inter-professional education or training to help them identify and appropriately respond to co-occurring problems. We developed an evidence-informed, competency-based curriculum to address this gap. In this paper we report on its effectiveness in increasing knowledge, changing beliefs and enhancing skills of frontline workers from all three sectors. SN - 1472-6874 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-017-0372-4 DO - 10.1186/s12905-017-0372-4 ID - Mason2017 ER -