Deliver WINGS
Ready to deliver evidence-based support for women in your community? Implementing WINGS enables your organization to offer proven interventions that address intimate partner violence, substance use, and reproductive health with both facilitator-led and self-paced digital options.
How can my agency or organization prepare to implement WINGS?
WINGS has been implemented in a wide range of agencies and organizations globally, including harm reduction programs, substance use treatment agencies, community-based organizations, primary care clinics, and other health care organizations. If your agency or program is interested in implementing WINGS, please refer to the WINGS Implementation Manual for more details on preparing your organization to implement either the facilitator-in-person training version of WINGS or the self-paced mHealth version of WINGS.
Facilitator version of delivering WINGS in person
If you or your agency are interested in implementing the facilitator-in-person version of WINGS, here is a link to the manual.
Please note the list of recommended services/agencies is for New York City. If you are implementing WINGS outside New York City, we recommend finding similar types of services to refer participants to. For additional information on core skills to deliver WINGS, please see:
Who Can Implement WINGS?
WINGS may be delivered by a wide range of facilitators, including peer advocates, counselors, social workers, case managers/case workers, community health workers and other helping professionals, with sufficient training.
mHealth Version of WINGS
If you or your agency is interested in implementing the self-paced mHealth version of WINGS, please contact wings@columbia.edu
Standard Training to deliver WINGS
If you or your agency is interested in delivering WINGS, we recommend that your staff implement WINGS complete 7-10 hours of training depending on their skill level and which version of WINGS you are implementing. Here is a link to our standard WINGS training workshop. To request a WINGS training tailored for your agency or community, please email wings@columbia.edu
How can WINGS be adapted and culturally tailored to new communities?
WINGS has been adapted for different key affected populations of women at high risk of experiencing IPV for different communities globally (see country partners tab), including women living in extreme poverty, women living in war zones, women who exchange sex for money or drugs, women living with HIV, and transgender women. Adapting WINGS involves customizing the delivery of the intervention to ensure that messages are appropriate for WINGS participants served by your agency or within your community, without altering, deleting, or adding to the intervention’s Core Elements.
If your agency is interested in adapting WINGS to a new community of women at risk of IPV or GBV or a different cultural context or if you are interested in integrating WINGS into other interventions and services in your agency, our WINGS team is available for consultation. Please email wings@columbia.edu
TRANSLATED MANUALS
Tailored for Different Communities Globally
Our adapted manuals are thoughtfully refined to reflect local languages, cultures, and experiences—without changing their core principles. Each resource is shaped through collaboration with peer workers and community voices to ensure authenticity and relevance.
