Domestic Violence Awareness

Did You Know?

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This is how many calls the DV hotlines nationwide receive in a typical day.

What is 20,000 phone calls?

200

This is the average number of people per minute physically abused by an intimate partner.

What is 20 people per minute?

300

What is the percentage of Illinois women that experience intimate partner violence in their lifetimes.

What is 41.5%?

400

What is the percentage of Illinois men that experience intimate partner violence in their lifetimes.

What is 25.9%?

500

In 2020, this is the number of people that called the Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline for help.

What is nearly 30,000 people?

Did You Know?

100

This is the Illinois Domestic Violence hotline number.

What is 877-863-6338?

200

Domestic violence does not always leave visible bruises. These are the other forms of abuse.

What is psychological, verbal, emotional, and financial abuse? Remember that domestic violence is about power; its purpose is for the abuser to control the victim in whatever form(s) it takes, through whatever means it takes. 

300

This is the definition of domestic violence.

What is a pattern of coercive behavior used by one person to gain power and control over another in an intimate or familial relationship?

400

Why doesn't someone in a domestic violence situation just leave?

What is, in addition to the many obstacles a survivor faces while trying to leave, their risk of extreme violence or death vastly increases once they do leave their abuser. “Women who are separated from their partners have the highest rates of intimate partner victimization (42%) (Catalano, 2007). This is why it is imperative to help survivors access the right support, resources, and protections during that critical period of time. Achieving safety requires the right tools and options be available at the point the survivor needs them.

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Are You Experiencing Abuse?

Does your partner:

• Embarrass you with bad names and put downs?
• Control what you do, who you see or talk to, or where you go?
• Stop you from seeing or talking to friends or family?
• Take your money or Social Security, make you ask for money, or refuse to give you money?
• Make all the decisions?
• Look at you in ways that scare you?
• Tell you you’re a bad parent or threaten to take away or hurt your children?
• Act like the abuse is no big deal, it is your fault or even deny doing it?
• Destroy your property or threaten to kill your pets?
• Intimidate you with guns, knives, or other weapons?
• Shove you, slap you or hit you?
• Force you to drop charges?
• Threaten to commit suicide?

Did You Know?

100

Between July 2019 and June 2020 how many domestic related deaths were there in Illinois?

What is 60 incidents of domestic violence homicide resulting in 75 deaths in Illinois?

Victims who died as a result of domestic violence relationships spanned all age groups - with the youngest victim being a nine month old infant and the oldest being an 80 year old woman. Seven children lost their lives at the hands of an abuser along with 60 adult victims.

200

What are the factors that increase lethality?

What is the following:

• Separation or an attempt to end the relationship 

• Threats to kill 

• Access to weapons 

• Stalking 

• Strangulation during an assault 

• Controlling, possessive and jealous behavior 

• Drug and/or alcohol abuse 

• Children not in common 

• Unemployment

300

This is a tool that has worked for others, and it can help you think about ways in which you can stay safer.

What is a safety plan? 

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What are some things I can do as part of a safety plan.

What is

• Identify a neighbor I can tell about the violence and ask them to call the police if they hear a disturbance at my house.
• Devise a code word or signal to use with family, friends, or neighbors when I need them to call the police.
• Open my own savings account to increase my independence.
• Leave money, an extra set of keys, copies of important documents, and extra clothes with someone I trust.
• Decide where I’ll go if I leave my home, even if right now I don’t think it will come to that.
• Identify a domestic-violence shelter to call. Find out if a friend or relative will let me stay with them or lend me money.
• Keep the shelter hotline close at hand and keep change or a calling card on me at all times.
• Identify which door, window, stairwell, or elevator offers the quickest way out of my home, and practice my escape route.
• Teach my children to dial 911
• Pack a bag and have it ready to go in case I must leave home. Keep the bag in a private but accessible place where I can grab it quickly.
• If I already have an order of protection, I need to keep it with me at all times.
• Review my safety plan as often as possible.

500

Where is the domestic violence courthouse?

What is 555 West Harrison