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National Crime Victims' Rights WeekNational Crime Victims’ Rights Week is April 13-19, 2008. The National Center for Victims of Crime and the U.S. Department of Justice has announced this year’s theme is “Justice for Victims. Justice for All.” National Crime Victims’ Rights Week serves as a reminder that crime can strike anyone. One woman is victimized by an intimate partner every 1.3 minutes. Domestic violence occurs in all races, religions, ethnicities, economic and age groups. Justice for all cannot be achieved without justice for victims of crime. As a community, we must ensure rights, protections, and services for victims. A Safe Place provides many services to protect and assist victims of domestic violence including emergency shelter, affordable transitional housing, legal and non-legal advocacy, counseling, batterer intervention programs, and education.
“The first step to eliminating domestic violence in our communities is to spread awareness,” says Phyllis DeMott, Executive Director of A Safe Place. “By ignoring domestic violence in our communities, we are tolerating it.” Click here to learn more about domestic violence.
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