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CONTACT: Frances E. Ashe-Goins RN, MPH, Deputy Director, Office on Women's Health

The Office on Women's Health works to stimulate programmatic and policy activity within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in order to advance the work of eliminating violence against women (VAW) and girls in our country and the world.

We coordinate partnerships within the department and with other federal, state, and local agencies, in part, through our coordination of the DHHS Steering Committee on Violence Against Women and our staffing for the presidential appointed National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women.

Additionally we serve as the point of contact for DHHS on violence against women issues and in that role we direct citizens, colleagues, and organizations to the appropriate office or agency to respond to inquiries and provide resource information.

Through the work of our Regional Women's Health Offices we have had an impact on domestic violence, sexual assault, and violence against girls throughout the country. The Regional Women's Health Coordinators have done ground breaking work on the issues faced by incarcerated women, tribal women, and women in the territories.

In past years some of our work has focused on how violence affects women with disabilities, men as partners in prevention, and enhancing college and university curriculums to include domestic violence and sexual assault issues.

We also supported community-based immigrant women serving violence against women organization's in both urban and rural environments in 2005.

A Prevention and Intervention AIDS-Related Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence

Contact: Aleisha Langhorne, MPH, MHSA, Health Scientist

Currently we have funded a program entitled "A Prevention and Intervention AIDS-Related Services for Survivors of Domestic Violence." Under this program, organizations will develop and implement programs to address the risks of contracting HIV/AIDS. The programs shall be specifically designed to serve female survivors of domestic violence. The program is designed to train their counselors to incorporate HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention strategies when working with their clients. The contractors are:

1. Susan B. Spencer, Inc.
   8016 Flourtown Ave.
   Wyndmoor, PA 19038-7920
   Phone: 215-233-5373
   sbspencer@comcast.net

2. Ensync Diversified Management Services, Inc.
   655 W. Fulton Street, Suite 6
   Sanford, FL 32771-1788
   Phone: 407-936-1515
   ensyncdms@aol.com

3. The Wright Group
   124 O Street,
   SW Washington, DC 20024-9997
   Phone: 202-904-6824
   acobb@twgstrategies.com

4. Social Solutions International, Inc.
   18303 Wickham Road
   Olney, MD 20832-3141
   Phone: 301-774-0897
   snemes@socialsolutions.biz

Current as of December 2007