DeafROC

Robert Pollard, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Deaf Wellness Center at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and Mary Mowl, executive director of the Rochester-based Advocacy Services for Abused Deaf Victims (ASADV), received the Community Partnership Development Award from the Department of Psychiatry’s Office of Mental Health Promotion.

The honor includes a $20,000 award, which Pollard and Mowl will use to develop an evidence-based training curriculum on partner violence.

The Department of Psychiatry’s Partner Violence Intervention Project and the department’s Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization (LIVV) will assist with the development of the curriculum, which will include information in American Sign Language on a 60-minute DVD.

Evaluation, training, and research activities regarding partner violence in the deaf population are planned.

Collaborators on the project include: Vicki Hurwitz, ASADV board president; Susan Horwitz, Ph.D, of the University of Rochester Institute for the Family; Catherine Cerulli, J.D., Ph.D. of the Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization; and Sharon Haynes, M.S.W. of the Deaf Wellness Center.

For more information:
Michael Wentzel
585-275-1309
Michael_Wentzel@urmc.rochester.edu