Any person may experience violence at some time in their lives.  Battering cuts across all economic levels, educational backgrounds, ethnic, racial and affecting preference lines.  It happens to people who are legally married, separated, living with or involved in relationship with a partner.  Battering can happen to people of any age; they may be doctors, homemakers, students, factory workers, lawyers, anyone...

BATTERING IS A CRIME!

Battering or abuse can be physical, sexual, emotional, and /or financial.  It can include slaps, punches, choking, beating with weapon, forced sexual acts, systematic destruction of a person's self worth.  Abuse includes harassment and threats.

HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN?
* Every day 4 women die in this country from assaults and
murders  inflicted by husband and boyfriends.
* Women are 10 times more likely than men to be victimized by an intimate partner.
* The number of women who have been murdered by their intimate  partner is greater than the number of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.

WHAT CAN I DO?

If you are experiencing violence in you life,  CADA advocates are available 24 hours a day.  All services are confidential.  Your safety is our top priority.