National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
E-Newsletter of the National Center
on Domestic and Sexual Violence
May 2015

Make a Donation
In This Issue
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June is PTSD Awareness Month
Subscribe to the PreventIPV eNewsletter
Thank you!
Being Fashionable Can Save Your Life!
Check out NCDSV's Website
Congratulations to Mary Kay, Inc., Anne Crews and Karen Kalergis!
New Reports

 

May 10-16 is National Women's Health Week. Here are 10 things you can do to show your support for women's health:

  1. Learn what steps you can take for good health at any age.
  2. Take the pledge and get on the map.
  3. Schedule your well-woman visit. #CheckupDay
  4. Join the National Women's Health Week Thunderclap.
  5. Dress up your social media profile pictures with our Twibbon.
  6. Share an inspirational card to support your decade.
  7. Spread the word with our prewritten social media messages.
  8. Organize events or activities.
  9. Meet our ambassadors.
  10. Use #NWHW in any messages you share about the week.  
Every year an estimated 5 million older Americans are victims of elder abuse, neglect or exploitation.  And that's only part of the picture.  Experts believe that for every case of elder abuse or neglect reported, as many as 23 cases go unreported.  For more information, visit the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life, National Center on Elder Abuse and NCDSV's resources and links.
June is PTSD Awareness Month
Spread the word about PTSD Awareness: 1) discover the facts; 2) watch and learn; 3) work together; 4) help someone ~ help yourself; 5) give support ~ get support; and 6) share what you learn.  See NCDSV's collection of PTSD and TBI resources.
Featured Article
Visit PreventIPV.org, a collection of prevention tools for change.  The website is ever growing and you'll want to sign up for the quarterly eNewsletter to stay informed of the latest developments. It highlights new additions to the website and features innovative prevention programs, events, publications, campaigns, funding opportunities, and other happenings of note in the prevention field.

The IPV Prevention Council was formed in 2011 as a voluntary association of domestic violence coalitions working in partnership with allied national organizations.  The Council is committed to enhancing the capacity of state/territory domestic violence coalitions and community-based domestic violence programs to advance a comprehensive national prevention agenda and broaden support for its full implementation at the national, state, territory and local levels. 

Debby Tucker, President of NCDSV's Board of Directors, and Rus Ervin Funk, Secretary of NCDSV's Board of Directors, were co-founding members of the IPV Prevention Council's Steering Committee as part of NCDSV's desire to see a unified effort to end IPV.
F
Thank you!
NCDSV's Board of Directors is continually supportive of the organization.  We have called on them so many times to help move the National Center forward to ensure that we make a good contribution to the movement to end violence.  Their guidance and support is much appreciated!  Read the Board members' bios. 

Being Fashionable Can Save Your Life!
Peppersprays_group_six
Pepperface.com, a National Center partner, is reinventing the vital topic of personal safety. Order today! At Pepperface.com innovation and style converge with social responsibility.  Now being fashionable can save your life ~ seriously!

NCDSV proudly supports NO MORE.

Check out NCDSV's Website
Bookmark these pages:
SCAN the calendar of trainings, webinars and events nationwide. This is one of the most popular pages on the website!
 
SEE the expanded listing of job openings around the country.

REVIEW numerous grant opportunities. 

Send an e-mail if you want us to consider posting an announcement for you.

 
Celebrate the Mothers in your life
and support the National Center too!

Mother's Day is Sunday, so place an order today!
 
Send fabulous, fresh flowers and plants to the mothers in your life for Mother's Day and Touched by Flowers will donate 50% of the profit from your online order (no less than 15% of the retail price) to the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence. All the floral designs are professionally handcrafted and delivered fresh by local florists.

Enter code "5More" at checkout and Touched by Flowers will donate an additional $5 to the National Center!


Another great way to remember mothers is with stylish awareness jewelry from Bravelets.  Check out the new, bold "Be Brave" bar bracelets and necklaces, available in silver and gold.   Bracelets, necklaces and rings (all in purple domestic violence and teal sexual violence) are available and $10 from each item is donated to the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence.

Thinking about getting something for your mother at Amazon?  If you make your purchase through AmazonSmile, the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence will receive a donation.   Here's how it works:
  1. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence whenever you shop on AmazonSmile.
  2. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know.  Same products, same prices, same service.
  3. To shop at AmazonSmile, simply go to the National Center's link.  You may also want to add a bookmark to make it even easier to return and start your shopping at AmazonSmile. 



Remember, flowers and plants, awareness jewelry and purchases through AmazonSmile are perfect ways to remember the mothers, graduates and those with birthdays in your life.

We very much appreciate your support!
 
Congratulations to Mary Kay, Inc., Anne Crews and Karen Kalergis!

Congratulations to two of the National Center's long-time friends!  Mary Kay, Inc. and Karen Kalergis were recently recognized for advancing rights and services for crime victims at the National Crime Victims' Rights Service Awards ceremony in Washington, DC. Read the entire news release, watch the ceremony and view the gallery of photos and bios.

Mary Kay, Inc., of Addison, TX, received the Allied Professional Award, which honors an organization outside the victim assistance field for services or contributions to the victims' field. 

We especially appreciate Anne Crews for her friendship and steadfast commitment to ending domestic violence.  Anne is Vice President of Public Affairs for Mary Kay, Inc. and serves on the Board of Directors for The Mary Kay Foundation.  She served two terms on the U.S. Department of Justice's National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women and represents Mary Kay as the president of the board of directors for the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence and is the Mary Kay liaison to the American Bar Association's Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence.  In 2006, she was named one of "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" for her advocacy work against domestic violence.

Karen Kalergis, a victim advocate from Austin, TX, received the National Crime Victim Service Award, which honors extraordinary efforts in direct service to crime victims.  Karen recently retired as the Associate Director from the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin. She was a strong leader in building the School of Social Work and continues to strengthen organizations providing services through consulting and training.

The Institute is a long-time collaborative partner of the National Center in providing expert witness trainings, including the "2015 Full Court Press Advanced Training: Building Capacity for Expert Witness Trainers in the Fields of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking," which is scheduled for May 11-14 in Lost Pines, TX.  UT's School of Law, the Stalking Resource Center and Texas Governor Office, Criminal Justice Division are also co-sponsoring this training for Texans who've previously attended a conference, have been testifying and are ready to expand capacity in their communities by training others.   

null Toby Myers, Vice-President of NCDSV's Board of Directors, and Debby Tucker, President of NCDSV's Board are among the faculty.
NEW REPORTS: Domestic violence and sexual assault in the Latin@ community; report to Congress on TBI; and sexual  violence in the military    

The NO MÁS Study
 
In April, a new study of domestic violence and sexual assault in the U.S. Latin@ community reveals barriers to reporting and high willingness to intervene to help survivors.  The findings of the largest and most comprehensive study to date of domestic violence and sexual assault in the U.S. Latin@ community, will be used to inform the launch of "NO MÁS," the first national awareness campaign engaging Latin@s to end domestic violence and sexual assault. The study was commissioned by the Avon Foundation for Women for Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network and NO MORE.


Report to Congress on TBI

  1. Improve estimates of TBI
  2. Enhance measures used to evaluate rehabilitation success
  3. Improve TBI rehabilitation research and service delivery
Bookmark the NCDSV's collection of PTSD and TBI resources.  

Sexual Violence in the Military

 Last week, the U.S. Department of Defense released its FY 2014 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter issued, Initiatives to Address Sexual Assault Prevention and Response and Retaliation Associated with Reporting Crime.  Carter writes, "...the prevalence of sexual assault has decreased across the Department, while reporting of the crime has increased.  These and other data gathered in the past year have helped us learn how to better care for victims and prevent sexual assault.  In addition, the report demonstrates our resolve to consider and employ new solutions that have been attempted nowhere else.  Our approach to prevention and Special Victims' Counsel programs hold great promise not only for the military, but also for the rest of the country as well." 

In February, DOD released its Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the U.S. Military Service Academies (academic program year 2013-2014). The survey indicates that cadets and midshipmen at all three academies experienced fewer sexual assaults in APY 13-14  than APY 11-12.  In 2014, 8.2 percent of academy women and 1.1 percent of academy men indicated experiencing unwanted sexual contact in the year before being surveyed, down from 12.4 percent and 2.0 percent, respectively. 

Bookmark NCDSV's collection of sexual assault in the military resources. For all of the information collected thus far on the military's response to domestic and sexual violence visit the Military Tab on the NCDSV website.

 
Happy Spring,
 
                 
Deborah D. Tucker  
President, Board of Directors                         
dtucker@ncdsv.org
   
   

 Like us on Facebook   Follow us on Twitter

 
Join Our Mailing List