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On February 5, 1980, PCAR joined with the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence to present a Legislative Education Day at the Pennsylvania State Capitol to increase understanding about House Bills 744 and 745, which proposed the creation of The Office on Crime Victims to improve investigation and prosecution of domestic abuse and ...
Mauree A. Gingrich (born July 10, 1946) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 101st District. [2] [3] The Lititz Record described her as a champion of "legislation to protect children, the elderly, the physically and mentally handicapped and victims of domestic violence ...
The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.
State Sen. Michael O. Moore, D-Millbury and Rep. Natalie M. Higgins, D-Leominster, discuss their roles in the passage of a bill that extends protections to survivors of domestic violence to ...
A private Pennsylvania nonprofit will continue funding Bucks County’s longtime, leading domestic violence education and victim assistance agency into next year, but a provider change appears not ...
Victims of Domestic Violence marker, Courthouse Square, Quincy, Florida Domestic violence is a form of violence that occurs within a domestic relationship. Although domestic violence often occurs between partners in the context of an intimate relationship, it may also describe other household violence, such as violence against a child, by a child against a parent or violence between siblings ...
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A Lancaster County man was arrested for allegedly committing sexual offenses against a minor. According to the New Holland Police Department, authorities began an ...
According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, roughly four out of every five victims of intimate partner violence between 1994 and 2010 were female. [31] "'We see as many upper-middle-class professional women as we see lower-income women,'" said Janet Scott, who was the community education and training director for the Women's Center ...