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Crime Prevention Efforts For a Brighter Future
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Victim Advocates are working hard to save lives and prevent ongoing violence in Indiana every single day. We are assisting victims in central Indiana and throughout the State. We are there to support primary and secondary victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, including pet victims. Family members, friends, and the community often experience the negative impacts of domestic violence.
The most common requests we assist with include filing protective orders, safety planning, legal needs (divorce, custody, and immigration), financial needs, employment readiness, mental and physical healthcare resources and help finding emergency and long-term housing. Each of these services can be a new beginning for a victim and their family. Oftentimes, victims want a protective order so the courts are aware of the risk they face during or after fleeing violence. After that basic level of protection is in place, they are ready to make other steps towards rebuilding their lives. When we work together, we can create a community that does not tolerate domestic violence or sexual assault. Victims need us to combine forces for good to foster peace and healing. Join the movement, save lives, and donate today. |
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“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
– Peyton Conway March
Scope of The Problem:
Domestic violence and sexual assault are pervasive, life-threatening crimes affecting millions of Americans.
On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During one year, this equates to more than 10 million women and men.
1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
A study of intimate partner homicides found that 20% of victims were not the intimate partners themselves, but family members, friends, neighbors, persons who intervened, law enforcement responders, or bystanders.
72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female.
1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence.
Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. And every 9 minutes, that victim is a child.
SOURCE: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and RAINN
1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence (e.g. beating, burning, strangling) by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
A study of intimate partner homicides found that 20% of victims were not the intimate partners themselves, but family members, friends, neighbors, persons who intervened, law enforcement responders, or bystanders.
72% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 94% of the victims of these murder suicides are female.
1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence.
Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. And every 9 minutes, that victim is a child.
SOURCE: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence and RAINN
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