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Resolution/Award/Presentation
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Status:
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Agenda Ready
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On agenda:
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9/16/2025
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Final action:
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Title:
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Resolution Acknowledging October 2025 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month - District 3
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Subject:
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Resolution Acknowledging October 2025 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month – District 3
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Fiscal Impact:
N/A
Dept/Office:
Housing and Human Services
Requested Action:
Recommendation
It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners approve a Resolution recognizing October 2025 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
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Summary Explanation and Background:
From the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence:
- An average of 24 people per minute are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States: more than 12 million women and men over the course of a single year.
- 14.8% of women and 4% of men in the United States have been injured as a result of intimate partner violence that included rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner.
- 1 in 4 women (24.3%) and 1 in 7 men (13.8%) aged 18 and older in the United States have been the victim of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
- Over 1 in 3 women (35.6%) and 1 in 4 men (28.5%) in the United States have experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
- 9.4% of high school students reported being hit, slapped, or physically hurt intentionally by their partner in the previous 12 months.
- Approximately 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men who experienced rape, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner first experienced some form of partner violence between 11 and 17 years of age.
- 1 in 10 high school students has experienced physical violence from a dating partner in the past year.
- 58% of college students say they don’t know what to do to help someone who is a victim of dating abuse.
- 96% of employed domestic violence victims experience problems at work because of the abuse.
- Over 70% of US workplaces don’t have a formal program or policy to address workplace violence.
From the National Network to End Domestic Violence:
- Domestic violence and sexual assault are pervasive, life threatening crimes affecting millions of individuals across our nation regardless of age, gender, economic status, race, religion, or education level.
- Personal safety and economic security are inextricably linked for victims of domestic violence. For many victims, concerns about their ability to provide for themselves and their children are a significant reason for staying in, or returning to, an abusive relationship. Access to resources that increase economic stability are essential in rebuilding one’s life after abuse.
- Almost one in two women (47.3% or 59 million) and more than four in 10 men (44.2% or 52.1 million) in the United States reported contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.
- In 2022, men killed 2,410 women in single victim/single offender incidents – an average of more than six homicides each day. For killings where the relationship could be identified, 87.5% of female victims were murdered by someone they knew; of these, 58.1% were wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends.
Members of the Domestic Violence Task force will accept the resolution.
Clerk to the Board Instructions:
Please frame one Resolution.
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