Mission
To empower victims to live violence free by providing advocacy,
education, and resources.
Domestic Abuse Program offers:
What is abuse?
 | Every batterer without exception uses emotional abuse to humiliate and
degrade. |
| Isolation from friends, family, and work. Interrogations if you do go see
them. Controls the use of the phone, car, who you see, and where you go. |
| Threats of taking the kids, killing themselves, or having you committed. |
| Economic abuse by controlling all financial decisions, or making it hard
for you to keep a job. |
| Using the kids by making you feel guilty about leaving or if you have
already left, by sending messages through them. |
| Intimidation by putting you in fear by looks and actions. |
| Male privilege as in you are his servant and he is the boss. |
| Sexual abuse by forcing you to have sex. |
| Physical violence adds power to all of the above tactics, creating a
setting where you feel responsible for the abuse. |
Facts about Domestic Violence
| Every 15 seconds a woman is battered in the U.S. |
| Battering is the greatest single cause of injury to women in the U.S.,
more than by car accidents, rapes, and muggings combined. |
| Nearly one-fourth of American women will be abused by a current or former
partner at some point in their lives. |
| 4 million American women a year are physically assaulted by their male
partners. |
| One quarter of the violent crime in the U.S. is wife assault. |
| The FBI estimates that only about 10% of domestic violence is reported to
the police. |
| 60% of battered women are beaten while they are pregnant and at least 60%
of battered women are sexually abused by their partner. |
| Every 11 days in the U.S. a woman is murdered by her husband, boyfriend,
or live-in-lover.
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You can view the latest DAP Newsletter (in PDF format) by clicking
here.
Domestic Abuse Program Staff
Margaret, Program Director
Carly, Child Advocate
Jane, Volunteer Coordinator
Dena, Victim/Witness Advocate
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