Featured Reports
Family Court Project Data Brief Series
Series of 8 fact sheets presenting different findings of the Milwaukee Family Court Study examining domestic violence survivors’ experience in family court and their and their children’s wellbeing following family court.
DVHRT 2024 Annual Report
This report summarizes the work of Milwaukee’s Domestic Violence High Risk Team (DVHRT) in 2024. The DVHRT works to identify DV cases at highest risk for lethality and raft individualized recommendations for each case that will maximize safety for victims and accountability for offenders. Read about recommendations & outcomes for cases staffed in 2024. Also included in this report is a study comparing outcomes of staffed cases to similarly high risk cases that were not staffed.
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. Learn about the experience of survivors in family court and how survivors and their children are functioning following different custody & placement arrangements.
Homelessness, housing instability, & intimate partner violence
This report summarizes the intersection of homelessness and intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV survivors and their children are at particular risk for homelessness and housing instability. Read about local statistics in Milwaukee and suggested practice & policy solutions.
Hope lives here 2024
This report describes the work of Sojourner Family Peace Center (FPC) in supporting domestic violence (DV) survivors and their families. Read about survivors’ goals for themselves, perception of care at the FPC, safety, hope, empowerment, and mental health and how FPC services have improved these outcomes for survivors.
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. The DVHRT works to identify DV cases at highest risk for lethality and raft individualized recommendations for each case that will maximize safety for victims and accountability for offenders. Read about recommendations & outcomes for cases staffed in 2023.
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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