SHE FRAMEWORK

The SHE Toolkit is a structured risk/safety assessment process to identify and eliminate harms for women experiencing abuse and to implement proven or promising safety and health enhancement measures. The SHE Toolkit has been developed as a step-by-step guide for a team of health care providers, planners and policymakers and their community partners to identify compounding harms within their health care setting, using the two contrasting models to guide the process. Any health care setting can embark on this review process – a clinic, a unit of a hospital, an entire institution, a provincial program, even a health region. Essentially, this review process is about transforming practices and policies from the Compounding Harms Model into the righted SHE Model to enhance the safety and health of women who have been impacted by abuse. “A gap between women’s experienced reality of violence and institutional reality is potentially produced in each and every case management step in processing a case. The opportunity for institutions to create reality rather than to respond to the empirical social world of victims is great.”- Ellen Pence [81] The Safety and Health Enhancement (SHE) Process will take between six months and one year to complete and has four major components