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In England in 1971, Erin Pizzey started the first domestic violence shelter in the modern world after Haven House, which opened in 1964 in California, Chiswick Women's Aid; the organization is known today as Refuge. [47] [48] [49] Since that time almost every European country has opened shelters to help domestic violence victims. [50]
This category includes articles on organizations based in the U.S. state of Colorado. Organizations include, among others, voluntary associations and 501(c) non-profit organizations; companies and for-profit organizations, religious organizations, and so on, are also appropriate.
Rodríguez Russel was involved in many community and national organizations. [1] She was a founder of the National Institute for Reproductive Justice in 1994 and the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) in 1998. [2]
[49] [50] The organization was named the Sunny von Bulow Victim Advocacy Center, and it opened in January 1986, in Fort Worth, Texas. [51] [50] Fort Worth was chosen because of its location in the center of the United States. [52] Auersperg envisioned the organization to be a national information and referral organization for victim-advocate ...
The original three women and Maria Corral, Elicia Gonzalez, Jacinta Montoya Price, Gloria Sanchez and Martha Spano received a grant from the Latinas Unidas State Coalition Project for the National Institute for Reproductive Health, and was the first Latina-led and Latina-serving reproductive justice organization in Colorado.
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The Office for Victims of Crime, established by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) of 1984, administers the Crime Victims Fund. The fund is financed by fines paid by convicted federal offenders. As of September 2013, the Fund balance had reached almost $9 billion.