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Shepherd’s Door Domestic Violence Resource Center, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, serves as a vital link between individuals facing crisis due to domestic violence and the support systems designed for both victims and perpetrators. Our approach is rooted in trauma-informed care, addressing the safety, physical, economic, and emotional needs of our clients. We acknowledge the profound impact of domestic violence on society, which fuels our belief that education serves as the cornerstone for putting an end to this pervasive issue.

Domestic violence is a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion, that adults or adolescents use against their intimate partner.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS:

• A pattern of behaviors including a variety of tactics – some physically injurious and some not, some criminal and some not – carried out in multiple, sometimes daily episodes.
• A pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors, including physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion.
• A combination of physical force and terror used by the perpetrator that causes physical and psychological harm to the victim and children.
• A pattern of purposeful behavior, directed at achieving compliance from or control over the victim.
• Behaviors perpetrated by adults or adolescents against their intimate partner in current or former dating, married or cohabiting relationships of heterosexuals, gays and lesbians.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE STATISTICS

• One out of every three women will be abused at some point in her life.
• Battering is the single major cause of injury to women, exceeding rapes, muggings
  and auto accidents combined.
• A woman is more likely to be killed by a male partner (or former partner) than any other person.
• About 4,000 women die each year due to domestic violence.
• Of the total domestic violence homicides, about 75% of the victims were killed as they attempted to leave the relationship or after the relationship had ended.
• Seventy-three percent of male abusers were abused as children.
• Thirty percent of Americans say they know a woman who has been physically abused by her husband in the past year.
• Women of all races are equally vulnerable to violence by an intimate partner.
• On average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or partners in this country every day.
• Intimate partner violence a crime that largely affects women. In 1999, women accounted for 85% of the victims of intimate partner violence.
• On average, a woman will leave an abusive relationship seven times before she leaves for good.
• Approximately 75% of women who are killed by their batterers are murdered when they attempt to leave or after they have left an abusive relationship.