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Domestic Violence and Women with Disabilities
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Definition of a person with a disability, from the Americans with Disabilities Act:
An individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. |
Disabled women:
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Have a rate of 85% of them as victims of domestic violence.
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Are raped, assaulted and abused at rates more than 2 times greater than women without disabilities.
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Often feel trapped in an abusive relationship because of their disability.
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Fear being institutionalized.
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Have low employment rates and wages.
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Have low levels of education.
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Have high poverty rates.
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Have high rates of segregation in society.
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Suffer more prolonged and violent abuse than other battered women.
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Suffer more serious and chronic effects from the abuse.
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Suffer:
- Verbal abuse
- Forced segregation
- Intimidation
- Abandonment and neglect
- Withholding of medications, transportation, equipment and personal assistance services
- Physical and sexual violence
If you would like more information about A Safe Place, please call us at 847-731-7165 or email us at info@asafeplaceforhelp.org. |
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A Safe Place provides individual and group counseling to victims of domestic violence in both the residential and nonresidential programs.
The 24-hour HELP LINE, 847-249-4450; TTY 847-249-6557, can provide assistance in accessing services.
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