Knowledge Hub Presents - April 30, 2024
iHEAL
The iHEAL app is a free ‘made in Canada’ safety and health resource based on over 30 years of research and developed for Canadian women who are experiencing or have experienced intimate partner violence. Available in English and French, the app helps women consider their priorities and needs and access information and resources to help them on a path to improved safety, health and well-being. The app can also be used by family members and friends and those who provide direct services to extend the support they already provide to women. Watch the app developers do a live demonstration of the iHEAL app and a discussion of it’s features and possible uses, followed by a Q and A.
Learning objectives:
Participants who watch this session will be able to:
- Appreciate how and why the iHEAL app was developed and the research behind it
- Identify the main components and features of the app, and how to navigate it
- Consider how they might use the iHEAL app in their work.
For more information or to download the app and follow along: www.ihealapp.ca
Presenters
Dr. Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, RN, PhD, FAAN, FCAHS, FCAN (Lead) is a Distinguished University Professor and Women’s Health Research Chair in Rural Health, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University. With a background in public health nursing, for the past 25 years, her research and community work have focused on improving the health and quality of life of people affected by violence and inequities by improving services and policies. Most of her research focuses on women’s health, violence, health equity and place, particularly testing online and F2F safety and health interventions for women who have experienced partner violence.
Dr. Colleen Varcoe, RN, PhD, FCAHS, FCAN (Co-lead) is a Professor Emeritus in the University of British Columbia School of Nursing. Her work aims to decrease inequity and violence including interpersonal and structural forms of violence such as racism and poverty. Her completed research includes studies of risks and health effects of violence and how to promote health for women who experience violence, especially Indigenous women. She has studied how to promote equity-oriented healthcare (cultural safety, harm reduction, and trauma- and violence-informed care) at the organizational level and worked with various Indigenous communities, organizations and issues, including in health care and criminal justice contexts.
Dr. Kelly Scott-Storey, RN, PhD (Co-lead) is a health researcher and Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick, Director of Community Research, Scholarship and Teaching at the Fredericton Downtown Community Health Centre and a Research Fellow with the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Center for Family Violence Research. Her program of research is broadly in the intersection of violence, gender and health and focuses on health interventions and measurement of violence/scale development and community action.
Learn more about the iHEAL project.
