From Staff Reports
The Health Plan recently made a significant contribution to fighting domestic violence in the Ohio Valley. The company donated $25,000 to the YMCA Wheeling’s Family Violence Prevention Program.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company said, there has been an increase in domestic violence in the region and throughout the country. YMCA Wheeling Executive Director Lori Jones said that emergency shelter nights have increased by 69 percent, and the organization’s Family Violence Prevention Program helped more than 11,600 women, children and men last year.
“The stress for our community members fleeing domestic violence is overwhelming,” Jones said. “The support offered by The Health Plan assists every person seeking health and safety in their lives. We can’t be more honored to be community partners with The Health Plan in our quest to end domestic violence.”
We asked experts what’s plausible (Salwan Georges/Christopher Smith/The Washington Post; Lily illustration) Anne Branigin
Jan. 20, 2021
When President Biden took his oath of office on Wednesday, the most diverse administration in U.S. history came into power. It has done so at a time of multiple crises: The coronavirus has spiraled, even as vaccination efforts are underway. A massive economic downturn has disproportionately driven women out of the workforce most of them Black and Latina. And while Donald Trump is out, Trumpism continues to roil the country.
Still, many advocates say they are hopeful a new administration will bring policy changes that could have direct impact on the lives of millions of American women, pointing most recently to Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic and health-care relief package, unveiled Thursday.
SA offers free financial counselling to women
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At-risk women living in SA will be given access to free financial counselling as part of a new government-backed program to reduce financial abuse.
SA-based charity the Zahra Foundation, which supports women suffering financial and domestic abuse, has received a $150,000 commitment from the SA state government to provide free financial counselling to female domestic violence victims in South Australia.
The program, which covers Adelaide’s north and south, Gawler, Barossa, Clare and the Limestone Coast, aims to reduce financial abuse by supporting at-risk women in achieving financial independence.
Photo by Ken Farver | Rachelle Barmann, coordinator of the Children’s Domestic Violence Program at Turning Point, is also an art therapist. In the year ending June 30, Turning Point sheltered 41 children overnight, 28 of them under the age of 5. On the tree trunk behind Barmann are the words: “We can do hard things.” Entwined in the branches is the message: “Adversity produces seeds of greatness.” Novel coronavirus draws another veil over incidence of domestic violence
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