Resources
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Get help now
- CALL the Newhouse 24/7 Crisis Hotline at 816-471-5800. You can also call the KC Metro Domestic Violence Hotline at 816-468-5463 (816-HOTLINE).
- TEXT START to 88788 to use the National Domestic Violence Hotline’s text feature. (Visit their privacy policy for more info, message and data rates may apply. Text STOP to opt out.)
- CHAT with virtual AI assistants like Ruth from thehotline.org or Hope Chat from domesticshelters.org, for quick answers to your FAQs.
- MAKE a personal safety plan to help anticipate dangers you may face. Just as abusers continually shift their tactics of power and control, your safety plan is an adaptable tool to help increase your safety in you ever-changing situation.
Local Resources
- Street Sheets from Kansas City Public Library – community providers that offer resources + assistance such as food, shelter, health care, etc.
- Resource Guide from Kansas City Police Department
- The Resource Center from University Health can assist in finding healthy food, rides to the doctor, and help to afford medication.
- Find local providers by zip code, with filters for specific services, from the National Domestic Violence Hotline
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About Domestic Violence
1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men will experience intimate partner violence at some point in their lives. That means domestic violence affects someone you may know, someone you may love.
Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence, and emotional abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically; however, the one constant component of domestic violence is one partner’s consistent efforts to maintain power and control over the other.
Domestic violence is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community regardless of age, economic status, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, or nationality. It is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior that is only a fraction of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence can result in physical injury, psychological trauma, and in severe cases, even death. The devastating physical, emotional, and psychological consequences of domestic violence can cross generations and last a lifetime.
Content from NCADV.org and TheHotline.org.
Identifying Domestic Violence
- Indicators of Healthy, Unhealthy, and Abusive Relationships
- Recognize the Warning Signs of Abuse
- Tactics for Power and Control
Someone I know is experiencing domestic violence. How can I help?
Seeing or hearing about a friend or loved one experiencing abuse is difficult. Your first impulse might be to get involved and convince them to leave as soon as possible, but it’s often more complicated than that. Please read these seven ways you can help support someone in a domestic violence situation. Just by being here, you’re already on the right track.
Community education
Domestic violence is a community health problem. When we come together as a community, we can truly break the cycle of domestic violence.
Below are a few resources Newhouse offers to help all community understand the power and prevalence of domestic violence. If you are interested in bringing one of these educational experiences to your group, company, church, or organization, please reach out to mary@newhousekc.org.
In Her Shoes: Living with Domestic Violence
In Her Shoes is an interactive presentation that fosters empathy with victims of domestic violence. Participants move, do, think and experience the lives of abused women. It is the experiential nature of “In Her Shoes” that allows participants to understand the severe challenges faced by abused women and to answer for themselves that enduring question: Why doesn’t she just leave?
In Their Shoes: Teens & Dating Violence
Designed with the classroom in mind, In Their Shoes: Teens and Dating Violence is an engaging way to talk about dating violence and healthy relationships with young people in one class period. Participants become one of six characters based on the experiences of real teens including sexting, pregnancy, homophobia, and stalking. They make choices about their relationships and move through the scenario by reading about interactions with their dating partner, family, friends, counselors, police, and others.
Speaker’s Bureau
Community outreach promotes education and awareness about:
- Domestic violence in the workplace
- How the faith community can respond to domestic violence
- How domestic violence impacts children
- Teen dating violence
