Sunday, December 20, 2009

Shelters Don't Help the Real Victims of Violence, Report Says

The nation's 1,200 bribery shelters are abounding with abandoned bodies and actuality abusers, authoritative it harder for accurate victims of calm abandon to get the advice they need. The report, Are Abuse Shelters Helping the True Victims of Domestic Violence? reveals that alone one in 10 bodies are in the apartment because they are victims of battering. The address calls on shelters to analyze their mission and refocus on the needs of accurate victims. coached by the agents to go to cloister and get a careful adjustment adjoin their husbands I was targeted because I was black…Nothing was arcane and what I discussed with agents was accepting discussed with clients. This address shows how our bribery shelters accept absent afterimage of their advised purpose to advice women and men who are victims of calm violence If we ambition to fix the botheration of calm violence, we aboriginal charge to fix our broken bribery shelters.

Washington, DC -- The nation's 1,200 bribery shelters are abounding with abandoned bodies and actuality abusers, authoritative it harder for accurate victims of calm abandon to get the advice they need, reveals a address appear today. The address is issued by RADAR Services, a accumulation of men and women alive to advance the capability and accessibility of calm abandon programs.

The report, Are Abuse Shelters Helping the True Victims of Domestic Violence?, reveals that alone one in 10 bodies are in the apartment because they are victims of battering. Based on analysis studies, reviews of apartment websites, and interviews with above apartment association and staff, the address is the a lot of absolute appraisal of bribery shelters anytime accomplished.

The address identifies problems with lax acceptance policies, amateur staff, arrogant tactics, and anemic accountability measures. Some shelters appoint agents with bent records. Shelters generally discriminate on the base of sex, race, or disability. Many of these problems are widespread.

The address cites advancing accounts by above apartment workers and residents. At Safespace in Florida, a 26-year-old woman was fatally stabbed by addition apartment resident. At the Brewster apartment in Arizona, a 12-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by a apartment resident. At Bethany House in Falls Church, Virginia, women are "coached by the agents to go to cloister and get a careful adjustment adjoin their husbands" while bribery never occurred, reveals a above volunteer.

Lack of acquaintance for association is one concern. One African-American woman revealed, "I was targeted because I was black…Nothing was arcane and what I discussed with agents was accepting discussed with clients."

"This address shows how our bribery shelters accept absent afterimage of their advised purpose to advice women and men who are victims of calm violence," explains Elizabeth Crawford, administrator of the Domestic Violence Counseling Center in Charleston, WV. "If we ambition to fix the botheration of calm violence, we aboriginal charge to fix our broken bribery shelters."

Citing a amount of archetypal programs, the address calls on shelters to analyze their mission and refocus on the needs of accurate victims.

The abounding address can be apprehend at http://www.mediaradar.org/docs/RADARreport-Are-Abuse-Shelters-Helping-True-Victims.pdf

RADAR Services is a non-profit, non-partisan alignment of men and women: www.mediaradar.org.

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