Featured Reports
Custody & Placement for Children Whose parents experience intimate partner violence: Child & Parent wellbeing
When a survivor of intimate partner violence (IPV) shares children with an abusive partner, finding safety is not only about them but also involves the safety and wellbeing of their children. Survivors weigh their options with their children at the forefront of their minds.
Homelessness, housing instability, & intimate partner violence
Homelessness and housing instability are issues commonly faced by intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. In fact, IPV is a leading cause of homelessness for women across the country.
Hope lives here 2024
Promoting safety and well-being for survivors of domestic violence.
milwaukee county domestic violence high risk team annual report 2023
This report summarizes the work of Milwaukee’s Domestic Violence High Risk Team (DVHRT) in 2023. Milwaukee’s DVHRT operates from Sojourner Family Peace Center in Milwaukee, WI. DVHRTs are a recognized best practice by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for communities to address domestic violence (DV) cases at high-risk for homicide. The DVHRT works to identify DV cases at the highest risk for lethality and craft individualized recommendations for each case that will maximize safety for victims and accountability for offenders. Additionally, Milwaukee’s DVHRT creates an opportunity for victims in staffed cases to provide input on appropriate recommendations for their case.
The economic impact of domestic violence in milwaukee & Wisconsin 2021
Measuring the precise economic impact of domestic violence for Milwaukee County and the State of Wisconsin in 2021 entails estimating total costs in eleven categories: loss of life; lost work productivity; physical health care; mental health care; loss of property; policing costs; criminal court costs; incarceration; civil court costs; domestic violence programs, shelters, and agencies; and volunteer hours. In each category, we estimated the dollar costs using state- and county-level data from Wisconsin, and estimates (for example, loss of workdays per domestic violence incident) from peer-reviewed academic literature. We encourage other states to conduct similar studies as part of a growing focus on domestic violence.
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