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e used in inappropriate ways, to complicate the situation many employees believe that they lack the time, money to properly evaluated their programs. There programs that is obvious and tangible, but evaluating this type of program will be difficult to evaluate the impact that domestic violence will have on African American women.

The purpose of this report is to assistant in providing survivors increase knowledge of safety planning and community resource that will eventually lead to the survivor's well being.

The authors are concern that the programs that are provided involved in the understanding that there are societal oppressions faced by a various groups of people, but respecting the strengths and assets the inherent in different communities and reflected in the program services, staffing and philosophies. Women who are going through a domestic violence programs, has the tendency to change their expectations of the kind of resources that are available.

In the past, researchers have conducted studies regarding intimate partner violence (IPV), yet, researchers and practitioners still do not know about the effective screening strategies of Community Based Organizations to assistant specifically African American women as they work to achieve a violence free independent life.

Importance of the present study

These programs routinely collect information on survivors, who have strategies for enhancing their safety and knowing what community resources are available, but there is not any information on how effective the screening instrument where once the survivors leave the program to be violence free and live independently. The challenge of domestic violence service programs is the difficult in measuring the outcomes.

This will research will evaluated three Milwaukee's Community Based Organizations (CBO) that provide domestic violence program toward African American women and how effectiveness there screening instruments are once they leave the program. There is a discord of cultured specific when it excludes African American women from the services they need.

The key to effective screening instrument for Community Based Organizations that providing domestic violence services/programs is to identify these service design, delivery and development which should include the need of culturally specific around domestic violence and the beginning to address cultural privately and racial anxiety when working with African American women.

There is a conceptual barrier that plays into how these services are provided to abuse African American when the resources do not provide equal relief (Martinson, 2001) for them and these women don't benefit at the same level as their white counterparts from these resources, in part due to racism and the results of racism.

Although official rates of intimate partner violence (IPV) victims are similar to White women, and women of color (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1995) previous research indicated that women of color are less likely to use shelter services than their White counterparts (Coley & Beckett, 1988a, 1988b; Lockhart & White, 1989; West 1999)

For community based organizations that provide domestic violence services to African American women, once they leave there may not be an adequate follow-up system in place that will reinforce what they have learn