What We Do

• Study: Two-Thirds of Mass Shootings Linked to Domestic Violence - The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (efsgv.org)

• Facts - 70% of all Mass Shootings are Linked to Domestic Violence

• DV is the leading cause of injury to women - Every 9 seconds in the USA a woman is assaulted or beaten.

• Every year 1 in 3 women who are a victim of homicide is murdered by her current or former partner. 

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Statistics from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (May 2022)

• On average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. In a one-year period of time this equates to more than 10 million women and men. 

• On a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide. 

• Women between the ages of 18-24 are most commonly abused by an intimate partner.

• 1 in 15 children are exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence.