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Intimate Partner Violence, Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Fact Sheet 2005-2007, Virginia Department of Health
Sexual Violence, Virginia Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Fact Sheet 2005-2007, Virginia Department of Health
2005 Family & Intimate Partner Violence Homicide Report
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Virginia Deptartment of Health, July 2007
- Virginia Homicides: one third were family or intimate partner-related (29.6 percent - 147 victims)
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Nearly half (47 percent) of all family and intimate partner related
homicide victims were killed by an intimate partner
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- eight children saw the homicide
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- five children were attacked and survived
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- five heard the injury being inflicted
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- four found the homicide victim
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2006 VAdata Report on Domestic Violence
Virginia Domestic and Sexual Violence Action Alliance
- Virginia Domestic Violence Service Providers:
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- Responded to 51,652 crisis situations
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- Sheltered 6,796 individuals (3,646 adults and 3,150 children) in emergency residential service programs
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- Turned away 1,898 individuals because programs were full
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- Provided services to 3,267 children
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- Provided advocacy services to 5,812 adults with a focus on education on domestic violence dynamics and safety planning
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