DID YOU KNOW?

• Domestic violence is the “number one health risk” to women in the United States ?( U.S. Surgeon General)
• The children are also the victims of abuse, even if not intentionally, because “to witness abuse is to be abused”?
• The Catholic Church has a pastoral entitled “ When I Call for Help: A Pastoral Response to Domestic Violence Against Women”? (first published in 1992)
• Often the first place a victim will turn for help is to the Church?

DO YOU KNOW?

• The dynamics of abuse?
• How to be supportive to victims and their children?
• The area resources available to victims?