Reaction Paper: The Cost of Domestic Violence

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On our field of observation we went to the Family Justice Center of Sonoma County, this is a place where that provides and promote a safe community for people that have been a victim of a crime. The specialist such as doctors, psychiatrist and physicians provide assistance to survivors of domestic and relationship violence, elder abuse, sexual assault, as well as recently a deaf and hearing abuse victims. The FJCSC is one of the seventeen places in the state to help victims and one out of eighty victims of crime in the United States. The FJCSC is a one stop shop where as other facilities require you to make 21 different stops to get the same service. Last year the family justice center helped 14 hundred victims. Those victims brought at total of 900 children. I enjoyed the tour of the family justice center of Sonoma County. I learned a lot on how each patient is taken care of and the processes of each situation.
The FJCSC has been open since 2009. Most of the victims coming in are women at 90%. Last August that changed, there victims coming in were 20% male. The help given is a free of charge. How do victims get there? Well they may go there themselves, or policemen can point them to the FJCSC. About 46% policemen refer victims to the family justice center.
When going in the family justice center you are greeted by a volunteer that is in the desk he/she then calls for assistance for the victim. You then are greeted by an advocate who listens to the victims story then the advocate decides what type of help she/he needs and is transferred to where her/his needs are helped. Inside the FJCSC everything is opened by scanning a card by a worker. When I got there, there was an elder man greeting us from his desk, we waited in the room...

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...ms? There are people here in the US that have no family other than their own witch may be the broken one. They have no where to go no where to hide. Costs? Well there will be costs such as food, water utility, beds, and blankets, but it’s either this or seeing the victim again with the same case or another case caused by the same abuser. “The cost of domestic violence, including rape, physical assault, and stalking, exceeds $5,800,000,000 each year, of which $4,100,000,000 is spent on direct medical and mental health care services”(http://www.fjcgeorgetown.org). It would cost us more a year if we would release the victim the day he/she came than if they stayed the night. These are some of my ideas in making the family justice center a little better.

Works Cited

National Statistics. (n.d.). Welcome to the Family Justice Center. Retrieved March 26, 2014, from web

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