; (8) health care providers can identify survivors of violence and interventions can decrease risk for violence and improve health outcomes, but health providers need training and systems level support in order to do so; (9) Congress authorized a public health response to victims of domestic and sexual violence in the Violence Against Women Act of 2005; (10) since its enactment, the VAWA Health program has trained more than 13,000 health care providers to assess for and respond to domestic and sexual violence in over 230 clinical settings serving more than 1.3 million patients; (11) last year, the Health Resources & Services Administration made this issue a priority across all of its bureaus and released the HRSA Strategy to Address Intimate Partner Violence 2017–2020 with four key priorities: (A) Train the Nation’s health care and public health workforce to address intimate partner violence (IPV) at the community and health systems levels. (B) Develop partnerships to raise awareness about IPV within HRSA and HHS. (C) Increase access to quality IPV-informed health care services across all populations. (D) Address gaps in knowledge about IPV risks, impacts, and interventions.; and (12) a strong public health response can prevent and address the immediate and long-term health impacts of this type of violence and abuse. 3. Grants to strengthen the health care system’s response to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and for other purposes Section 399P of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 280g–4 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; (B) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (4) development or enhancement and implementation of training programs to improve the capacity of early childhood programs to address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking among families they serve.