State Police educate and inform during Domestic Violence Awareness Month

The Carl Hayden Community High School student’s black-and-white “End Abuse” is a pencil-drawn demand for a termination of domestic violence.

Domestic violence is defined as “a variety of behaviors or tactics that are used to control another person in an intimate relationship”, according to the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.

You don’t need video evidence before the police will take you seriously. All of us must take responsibility for reducing domestic violence in our community.

So we hold our vigils each October in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Easton, Monroe, Trumbull and Stratford, to shed much needed light on the disturbing fact that far too many victims of domestic violence are suffering in silence.

As the YWCA seeks ways to increase its ability to help more victims, a new 14-room shelter plans to begin accepting referrals from Harbor House and St. Anthony Family Shelter next week, with another 24 rooms slated to be available over the coming months and 20 more in 2018.

Standing in front of life-size silhouettes representing Kitsap County women and children killed over the years in instances of domestic violence, YWCA Executive Director Denise Frey said Thursday that she is exhausted of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Reality Check: In domestic violence situations, all states offer their courts the ability to issue restraining orders that restrict contact between abusers and victims.

Domestic violence is not a private issue. Because abuse can happen to anyone, there is no typical victim. However, in one day alone, approximately 11,000 requests for emergency services from victims go unmet and unresolved because of a lack of resources, often because of cuts in public funding.

YWCA North Central Indiana provides services to women in crisis through its economic empowerment, domestic violence counseling and sexual abuse counseling programs. Domestic violence affects us all.

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“Abuse is a real problem”. It’s a sign of strength. “And if you think that you know someone that might be experiencing that to offer your support”.

This was the first year, however, the Montgomery County commissioners added their own proclamation to recognize the awareness campaign.