NCJ Number
180604
Date Published
1999
Length
27 pages
Annotation
This report explains the purpose, statutory duties, services, and accomplishments during 1998 of the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault of the Alaska Department of Public Safety and presents program statistics and a discussion of major issues related to victim services.
Abstract
Since its founding in 1981, the Council has planned and coordinated services to victims of domestic violence or sexual assault and their families, as well as to perpetrators. It also provides for crisis intervention and prevention programs. During fiscal year 1998, the Council funded programs that served 20,215 victims, children, and family members; 46,518 nights of safety for victims and children in shelters and safe homes; 1,896 emergency transports of victims to safe locations; responses to 20,985 crisis calls to 24-hour toll-free lines in 18 Alaska communities; and 36,413 consultations and referrals. Nineteen hundred twenty-six batterers took part in batterers' intervention programs; 246 inmates took part in such programs in prison. the council estimates that this violence affects more than one-fourth of all Alaskans. Crucial issues include services to rural victims, improvements in responses to sexual assault, police training to reduce the arrests of domestic assault victims, and the need for legal representation and transitional housing. Discussion of collaborations with other organizations and appended program addresses and statistics