Domestic Violence Education
Domestic violence is prevelant in our society. The Family Violence Prevention Fund* reported that:- On average more than three women a day are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in the United States.
- Women experience two million injuries from intimate partner violence each year.
- Nearly one in four women in the United States reports experiencing violence by a current or former spouse or boyfriend at some point in her life.
- Women are much more likely than men to be victimized by a current or former intimate partner.
- There were 248,300 rapes/sexual assaults in the United States in 2007, more than 500 per day.
*http://endabuse.org/userfiles/file/Children_and_Families/DomesticViolence.pdf
Domestic Violence Education: A Journey of Knowledge, Healing, and Empowerment is a
resource for students, parents, schools, colleges and universities,
churches, community organizations, and the like to address this
pervasive issue. This curriculum is an invaluable guide
designed to assist in identifying the early signs of abuse so that
individuals can obtain help before a tragedy occurs. The
Domestic Violence Education: A Journey of Knowledge, Healing, and
Empowerment curriculum addresses the complex issue of domestic violence
through five comprehensive units:
I. What's Love? Understanding Domestic Violence
II. Children: The Silent Victims of Domestic Violence
III. Teen Dating Violence: Alone, Afraid, & Abused
IV. Reaching Out to Others: What Family and Friends Should Know About Domestic Violence
V. Survivors: Domestic Violence, the Law & Your Rights
Domestic Violence Education: A Journey of Knowledge, Healing, and Empowerment has been endorsed by Dana J. Hubbard, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Cleveland State University: "Overall, this curriculum is based in the literature and incorporates appropriate teaching and learning strategies. In addition, the curriculum also incorporates effective teaching and learning strategies. I believe that this curriculum will be effective at achieving its goals and objectives. The curriculum is excellent."
We welcome a meeting with you to further discuss how this curriculum can be integrated into health classes and/or how we can educate your student body and faculty on how to identify various types of abuse, the red flags in relationships, stalking, and understanding the tactics of control, etc. For more information call 216-253-2531.
I. What's Love? Understanding Domestic Violence
II. Children: The Silent Victims of Domestic Violence
III. Teen Dating Violence: Alone, Afraid, & Abused
IV. Reaching Out to Others: What Family and Friends Should Know About Domestic Violence
V. Survivors: Domestic Violence, the Law & Your Rights
Domestic Violence Education: A Journey of Knowledge, Healing, and Empowerment has been endorsed by Dana J. Hubbard, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Cleveland State University: "Overall, this curriculum is based in the literature and incorporates appropriate teaching and learning strategies. In addition, the curriculum also incorporates effective teaching and learning strategies. I believe that this curriculum will be effective at achieving its goals and objectives. The curriculum is excellent."
We welcome a meeting with you to further discuss how this curriculum can be integrated into health classes and/or how we can educate your student body and faculty on how to identify various types of abuse, the red flags in relationships, stalking, and understanding the tactics of control, etc. For more information call 216-253-2531.
Domestic Violence: Implications for the Workplace
Francesia La Rose ended her abusive relationship, but her boyfriend was unable to accept the fact that the relationship was over. Afraid for her life, Francesia obtained a protective order against her boyfriend. She then notified her employer that she believed that her boyfriend would follow through on his threats to kill her.
Still reeling from Francesia's decision to leave him, her boyfriend contacted her supervisor and demanded that she be fired. When the supervisor refused, her boyfriend indicated that he would come to the office and kill her. The next day, he walked into the office, proceeded to the fourth floor, and shot and killed her.
Francesia's family filed a wrongful death action against her employer, State Mutual Life Assurance Co., alleging that the company failed to protect her because they did no take her concerns, or her boyfriend's threat, seriously. Two years after Farncesia's tragic death, the company settled for more than $350,000.1
Francesia's is an example of how dangerous the workplace can be for a victim of domestic violence. It is particularly dangerous once she has left the relationship, because the office is the one place where the batterer still knows where to find her.1
According to a recent research study consisting of three large companies spanning 39 states, conducted by Anne O'Leary-Kelly and Carol Reeves, two professors at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, 10% of workers who responded to survey questions said that they were currently going through domestic violence. An additional 30% of the women said they'd been victims at some point in their lives. Contrary to popular opinion, studies show that battered women are more likely to be employed than not. In addition, spousal abuse occurs at work with surprising regularity. Studies show that 19% of current victims said some abuse was occurring at work.2
Aphesis can help employers educate their employees about domestic violence and avoid liability.
Training Topics include:
- Creating and Enforcing a Policy Against Violence
- Training Supervisors and Employees how to Identify Victims of Domestic Violence
- Creative Security Measures, and
- Much More!
Notes
1Perin, Stephanie L. "Employers May have to Pay When Domestic Violence Goes To Work" Spring 1999, Vol. 18, no. 2, academic search premier, accession no. 6935527
2Morris, Betsy. "Domestic Violence: Your Coworker's Dark Secret." November 20, 2008. http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/18/news/Domestic_violence_morris.fortune/index.htm
