SAFETY EXIT

Posted by ECDVC Victim Advocate
5.3.2016 3:23 PM

This Is Why I Didn’t Tell You He Was Beating Me by Janice Fuller-Roberts via Dame Magazine
Understanding the mind-set of a victim of domestic violence is almost impossible to do. Unless, like this writer, you’ve been one.

Posted by ECDVC Victim Advocate
4.4.2016 7:49 PM

I Didn't Just Fall Down the Stairs by Shawna Kenney via Dame Magazine
Janay Palmer is not ready to share her story yet, and she may never. But she has inspired other women to, like this writer, who suffered at the hands of an ex 20 years ago.

Posted by ECDVC Victim Advocate
3.31.2016 11:16 PM

More Resources Needed to Help Domestic Violence Victims Regain Financial Independence via NNEDV News

New data finds that nearly 400 domestic violence programs reported financial assistance as a significant unmet need in 2015.

Posted by ECDVC Victim Advocate
2.18.2016 10:33 AM

A Glimpse From the Field: How Abusers Are Misusing Technology by Kaofeng Lee via Techsafety.org
The Safety Net Project recently surveyed victim service providers on the misuse of technology by abusers. Of the programs surveyed, 97 percent reported that the survivors they are working with experience harassment, monitoring, and threats by abusers through the misuse of technology.

Facts and Statistics

Nearly 1 in 5 women (19.3%) and 1 in 59 men (1.7%) have been raped in their lifetime.¹
Among high school students who dated, 21% of females and 10% of males experienced physical and/or sexual dating violence.²
Over 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the US have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.³
An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate parnter in the US - more than 12 million women and men over the course of a single year.³
About 35% of women who were raped as minors also were raped as adults compared to 14% of women without an early rape history.³

More than a quarter of male victims of completed rape (28%) were first raped when they were 10 years old or younger.³
Among adult victims of rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner, 22% of women and 15% of men first experienced some form of partner violence between 11 and 17 years of age.²
Only about half of domestic violence incidents are reported to police.⁴
In the United States, an average of 20 people are physically abused by intimate partners every minute. This equates to more than 10 million abuse victims annually.¹
On a typical day, domestic violence hotlines nationwide receive approximately 20,800 calls.⁵

REFERENCES

Breiding MJ, Smith SG, Basile KC, Walters ML, Chen J, Merrick MT. Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization—National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, United States, 2011. MMWR 2014; 63(SS-8): 1-18.
Vagi KJ, Olsen EOM, Basile KC, Vivolo-Kantor AM. Teen dating violence (physical and sexual) among US high school students: Findings from the 2013 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey. JAMA Pediatrics 2015; 169(5):474-482.
Black MC, Basile KC, Breiding MJ, Smith SG, Walters ML, Merrick MT, Chen J, Stevens MR. The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS): 2010 Summary Report. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2011.
Lawrence A. Greenfeld et al. (1998). Violence by Intimates: Analysis of Data on Crimes by Current or Former Spouses, Boyfriends, and Girlfriends. Bureau of Justice Statistics Factbook. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Justice. NCJ #167237. Available from National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
National Network to End Domestic Violence (2015). ’14 domestic violence counts national summary. Retrieved from http://nnedv.org/downloads/Census/DVCounts2014/DVCounts14_NatlSummaryColor-2.pdf. viiCampbell, J.C., Webster, D., Koziol-McLain, J., Block, C., Campbell, D., Curry, M. A., Gary, F., Glass, N., McFarlane, J., Sachs, C., Sharps, P., Ulrich, Y., Wilt, S., Manganello, J., Xu, X., Schollenberger, J., Frye, V. & Lauphon, K. (2003). Risk factors for femicide in abusive relationships: Results from a multisite case control study. American Journal of Public Health, 93(7), 1089-1097.