Session 10: Preparing Your Health Facility
Objectives
- Demonstrate knowledge on how to ensure the health facility is ready to provide care to survivors
- Gain the knowledge and skills to prepare the health facility and set up a consultation room
- Map out current patient flow and response to sexual assault survivors and identify areas for improvement within the health facility
- Describe what referral resources are needed for sexual assault survivors, determine what resources are currently missing in your network and develop a plan for filling gaps and improving communication between the various organizations.
Presentation
Facilitator guide
Activities
Participant handouts
Key messages
- Prepare your health facility
- Entry point, care pathway, consultation room
- Medications, supplies, equipment, documentation, protocols
- Trained staff
- Identify support services, create a referral directory, coordinate between support services to meet survivors’ multiple needs and offer referral to survivors
Required supplies & materials
- Laptop, projector
- Pen and blank paper workbook for each participant
- Ball of string or wool
- Flip charts and markers
- Space large enough for participants to form a circle
- Print outs of activities – depending on which activities you choose
Further resources for facilitators (Optional)
- WHO (2017) Strengthening health systems to respond to women subjected to violence. A manual for health managers (pg 87-90)