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Helene Berman
School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences
Health Sciences Addition H30
University of Western Ontario
1151 Richmond Street
London, Ontario N6A 5C1

(519) 661-2111 Ext. 8657
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Research

Dr. Helene Berman is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, and the Scotiabank Research Chair in the Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children. Her program of research, which has been funded by grants from CIHR, SSHRC, and Status of Women Canada, pertains to violence in the lives of girls. During the past four years, she has been the Principal Investigator on a national study examining how girls and young women are socialized to expect violence, its effects on their health, and implications for policy makers and programmers. She is currently PI on a study that is examining intersecting sites of violence in girls' lives with particular attention to gender, race, culture, class, sexual orientation, and ability. Related work has included an investigation into the experience of uprooting, displacement, and health in the lives of homeless girls, Aboriginal girls, and newcomer girls in Ontario. Most recently, Dr. Berman received a grant from the Ontario Women's Directorate for a project titled, Rethinking Relationships in the Lives of Girls and Boys which will focus on the development of mentoring models for those who work with youth in the education, public health, and community sectors. Dr. Berman has served on numerous local, national and provincial boards, was a member of the Task Force on Screening for the Health Effects of Woman Abuse, served as an expert panel member for the development of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's Best Practice Guidelines, Screening for Woman Abuse: Early Identification and Initial Response. She is past Chairperson of the Alliance of Canadian Research Centres on Violence, a national network of community and academic researchers dedicated to the elimination of violence and the use of feminist participatory research approaches.

Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing research interests page

• Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Health & Rehabilitation Sciences (MSc, PhD)
• Health Studies
• Kinesiology
• Nursing
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Sports & Recreation Services
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