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  • Behind Broken Doors: Domestic violence summit exhibits local progress

    Beatriz Alvarado

    December 02, 2016 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Corpus Christi, Texas

    In Nueces County, new local programs, projects, and partnerships - spurred by a particularly deadly year for women - are demonstrating how improved assessment by law enforcement and engagement by community members is helping to reduce abuse and homicides while preventing domestic violence overall.

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  • GPS monitoring servings its purpose in Minnesota

    Beatriz Alvarado

    March 20, 2016 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Ramsey, Minnesota

    Project Remand, a private nonprofit, was established in 1973 to identify high-risk offenders. Late in 2012, the nonprofit launched a pilot program for GPS monitoring of domestic violence defendants.

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  • Officials: ‘Woman's state' curbs domestic violence

    Beatriz Alvarado

    March 19, 2016 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    In St. Paul, one of Minnesota’s collective approaches to solutions in action — dubbed The Blueprint for Safety — is a foundation of laws that adapt to the proliferation of domestic violence in the state and successful efforts of marrying the advocate community with the criminal justice system.

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  • Pivotal actions in Minnesota and St. Paul

    Beatriz Alvarado

    March 19, 2016 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    St. Paul, Minnesota, was the first in the nation to establish a shelter for battered women. Women’s Advocates was founded in 1974. In 1980, Minnesota also became the first state to implement a sentencing guidelines structure.

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  • In El Paso, a path to change domestic violence

    Beatriz Alvarado

    October 24, 2015 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    In El Paso domestic violence cases are processed more effectively by having social workers, prosecutors, and law enforcement work together to get immediate support to the victims and hold the aggressor accountable.

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  • Forum homes in on local action

    Beatriz Alvarado

    October 24, 2015 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Corpus Christi, Texas

    Caller-Times Saturday’s biannual Coastal Bend Social Forum hosted by Del Mar College gathered an array of experts to delve into the issues of domestic violence, labor rights, immigrant rights and homelessness, among other topics, to ignite a new tide of change in the Coastal Bend.

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