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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
COOK COUNTY RECOGNIZES OCTOBER 2025 AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH (DVAM)
WHEREAS, Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) is a national campaign dedicated to raising awareness about domestic violence in October, which Congress declared in 1989; and
WHEREAS, DVAM is a time to uplift the experiences and resilience of survivors, as well as educate and support households experiencing this hardship; and
WHEREAS, domestic violence is a pattern of physical and psychological abuse, threats, intimidation, isolation, or economic coercion used by one person to exert power and control over another person in the context of a dating, familial, or household relationship; and
WHEREAS, intimate partner violence can happen to anyone at any point in a relationship, and affects people of all ages as well as all racial, ethnic, gender, economic, and religious backgrounds; and
WHEREAS, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men experience sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime; and
WHEREAS, intimate partner violence is most common among women who are aged 18 to 24; and
WHEREAS, 1 in 5 women and 1 in 40 men in the U.S. are victims of rape or attempted rape; and
WHEREAS, the presence of a gun in a domestic situation increases the risk of homicide by 500%; and
WHEREAS, according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, each year, 1 in 15 children is exposed to intimate partner violence. Furthermore, 90% of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence; and
WHEREAS, in the U.S., 15.5 million children live in families where partner violence happened at least once within the past year; and
WHEREAS, LGBTQ domestic violence victims face barriers unique to their status, such as a lack of access to domestic violence shelters, according to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs; and
WHEREAS, the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey fo...
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