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A Don't-miss event at the Children's Museum
A community rally and press conference 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. – screening of "Healing Neen" and call to action The Children's Museum Malco4Kids For information, contact 378-3866 or dclubb@memphiswomen.org
October is filled with events marking national domestic violence monthMemphis and area DV events begin October 1 and carry throughout the month. See our calendar of events.
Tennessee ranks 5th in nation in murders of women by menKNOXVILLE (WATE) - A new report on crime ranks Tennessee fifth in the nation in the number of women killed by men. It's the same ranking Tennessee received last year. The study released Tuesday by the Violence Policy Center found of the 59 women killed by men in 2009, almost all were slain by a man they knew.
Employers confront domestic violence at work.As awareness grows about the effects domestic violence has on businesses and employers in the course of their daily work, employers are learning how to recognize signs of abuse, respond to the threat of violence, and refer employees to the help they need. Read more about DV's effects on the work place and resources available to employers. Now available for download: the work place poster and the EDDC OP guide 
Men lead second annual March for DV awareness.
Domestic violence focus moves to children
Community leaders concerned about spikes in domestic violence crimes in Memphis and Shelby County put the spotlight on children and violence in an annual event at The Urban Child Institute. Sponsored by Raising Families. Erasing Violence a collaboration of organizations focusing on a community response to domestic crime this year's theme was Saving our Precious Children. Nearly 80 people in attendance and the news media heard a presentation by local criminologist Dr. Richard Janikowski, who showed new data about the effects of violence on children and the areas in town where children are most vulnerable to violence.
Julie Coffey, director of the Shelby County Office of Early Childhood and Youth, announced that the community has been awarded a $159,099 federal planning grant one of 8 across the nation to help children exposed to violence. Other speakers included Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, Shelby County District Attorney Bill Gibbons, and Deborah M. Clubb, executive director of the Memphis Area Women's Council and coordinator of the community response to domestic violence. Later the same day, the Raising Families. Erasing Violence. group sponsored a special showing of the Hollywood film Precious at Studio on the Square theatre. Before and after the film, a survivors¹ panel and a community response panel further informed those in attendance about the DV problem and best practices and solutions. View coverage of the day's events
Domestic Violence Awareness Month Events calendar
Organizing. Advocating. Educating. Supporting. Watching. Monitoring. Auditing. And gradually, inescapably — erasing domestic violence and family crime. Those are some of the key words that describe the actions being taken in our community in 2010. It has been a busy year thus far as our leadership team — the Erase Domestic Crime Collaborative — has worked toward attaining the goals of Strategy 14 of Operation: Safe Community. Those goals are: • Address domestic violence in all its forms. • Fill gaps in service systems through a coordinated community-wide response. • Open and operate a new Family Safety Center. • Create a Unified Family Court in Shelby County. Here are some highlights of our ongoing efforts: The Family Safety Center of Memphis and Shelby County is in the final leg of securing a building to house the Center. The FSC also announced recently that is has been granted $1 million by the Plough Foundation. The money will be used to get the new building ready for service, and to help pay operating costs the first two years. Solving the problem of too few emergency shelters for victims is urgent. We have found that more shelters are needed and shelters must be managed with optimum use of best practices models. Memphis Men for Memphis Women was organized to voice men’s concerns about domestic violence. The support group worked with the Memphis Area Women’s Council and held a downtown event that got great publicity. Attorneys, physicians, clergymen, legislators and others — many wearing women’s high-heel shoes — walked downtown as part of the national Walk A Mile In Her Shoes promotion.
Ongoing efforts include Court Watch and other court reform efforts for the best possible operation of the new General Sessions Div. 10 domestic violence court; monitoring the management and operation of the rape crisis center; drafting a safety audit examining the response to DV by various local systems. Next up: watch for a project to create and disseminate a multi-media outreach tool to educate local employers about domestic violence. Raising and Erasing Our mission is to connect victims and volunteers to local services and resources,
with the goals of rescuing those in danger and empowering
those seeking to participate in a community response to domestic violence. I Need Help | I Want to Help | How Can I Respond? |
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Memphis and Shelby County Domestic Violence Council http://stopdvinmemphis.org/ |
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Family Safety Center |
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Shelby County Crime Victims Center http://www.shelbycountytn.gov/ |
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Memphis Area Women’s Council http://www.memphiswomen.org/ |
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Memphis Area Legal Services http://www.malsi.org/ |
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University of Tennessee Department of Preventive Medicine http://www.utmem.edu/prevmed/pm/commhealthpro.html |
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Operation: Safe Community http://www.operationsafecommunity.org/ |
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We are grateful for the support of the
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. |