Category: News Articles

  • Domestic Violence Solutions Announces Updated Services to Accomodate Male Victims

    By Noozhawk 02/26/2016 “… Domestic Violence Solutions shelters now have the capability to provide full-time shelter support for up to 45 days for male victims of domestic violence. Client support programs and services have been updated to accommodate men. …” Read the entire article: http://www.noozhawk.com/article/domestic_violence_solutions_announces_updated_services_to_accomodate_male_v

  • Bring elder abuse into the light so we can help

    By The Sydney Morning Herald 02/25/2016 “… The problem of elder abuse – physical, psychological and financial – isn’t immediately apparent unless you or your closest have endured it; unless you have worked in aged care and seen it. …” Read the entire article: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/bring-elder-abuse-into-the-light-so-we-can-help-20160224-gn32sx.html#ixzz41hpmAd9Y

  • I Didn’t Know a Man Could Be Abused by a Woman

    By Good Housekeeping 02/24/2016 “… “I was a straight, white guy in a normal, small town that kind of catered to people like me,” he says wryly. “My family was really close. My folks are still together. There were no big family problems that would have given me some kind of a window into how…

  • Oregon AG wants funds for elder abuse unit

    By Kion 02/17/2016 “… Rosenblum says reports of elder abuse have gone up significantly. In 2013, DHS received nearly 30,000 reports of elder abuse. In 2014, that jumped to more than 38,000. Rosenblum says that could be due to an increase in reporting, or an increase in the elderly population. Either way, she wants to…

  • Shedding light on elder abuse

    By Eureka Street 02/22/2016 “… To become old is usually to become invisible. Not always, and not always completely, but very often. Shakespeare has a person growing through seven ages and stages, and then moving inexorably into the time of ‘the lean and slippered pantaloon’, after which the individual’s ‘strange and eventful history’ sinks into…

  • Digital abuse new domestic violence front

    By Echo Net 02/19/2016 “… Up to 90 per cent of domestic violence cases involve technology and the problem is growing, according to South Australia’s Legal Services Commission. …” Read the entire article: http://www.echo.net.au/2016/02/digital-abuse-new-domestic-violence-front/

  • Doctors overstepped bounds in handling cases of suspected abuse: human rights commission

    By Montreal Gazette 02/23/2016 “… Though the province’s youth protection laws state that medical professionals should report suspected abuse immediately, the doctors under investigation by the commission waited for days in three cases, according to the report. …” Read the entire article: http://montrealgazette.com/news/investigation-finds-doctors-ignored-child-welfare-protocols

  • Saoirse Ronan sheds light on domestic violence in Hozier’s ‘Cherry Wine’ video

    By Entertainment Weekly 02/17/2016 “… “With the song ‘Cherry Wine,’ I tried to get across the difficulty of coming to terms with and facing up to domestic violence and the dynamic of an abusive relationship,” Hozier shared on his website. …” Read the entire article: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/17/saoirse-ronan-domestic-violence-hozier-cherry-wine

  • Baytown man pushes city to do more about elderly abuse

    By Baytown Sun 02/17/2016 “… Railsback wants the Baytown Police Department to do more in protecting elderly people from financial abuse by their relatives and others. …” Read the entire article: http://baytownsun.com/news/article_18e0de9e-d4ff-11e5-9896-d7b0967e32fd.html

  • Toughen sentences for child abuse

    By Herald Mail Media 02/17/2016“… So Del. Brett Wilson, R-Washington, is asking the General Assembly to increase the sentence for child abuse resulting in death from the current maximum of 40 years to life in prison. The sentence had been increased from a maximum of 30 years in 2012, through a measure known as Justice’s…