Safety Plan Workshop
This is a comprehensive look at what it means to be safe.
You’ve heard the phrase “better safe than sorry.” Invest in preparing to stay safe first. A solid safety plan can make all the difference in the world.
On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States — totaling more than 10 million in a year.
1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner contact sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking with impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-traumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, contraction of sexually transmitted diseases, etc.
The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%.
1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence.
