Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM)

Fundraiser

Goal: $10,000
100% of all funds will go toward our "Emergency Client Needs" Fund 
Donations to this digital fundraiser can be made through our PayPal portal (no account necessary) or through our Facebook DVAM Fundraiser.
​Kodiak Women's Resource and Crisis Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
​Domestic Violence Awareness Month is a nationwide effort to promote awareness and prevention of domestic violence throughout the month of October. Join us for the month of October to help raise funds for KWRCC, an organization dedicated to reduce the impact and incidence of relationship violence and sexual assault through education, advocacy, crisis intervention, crisis counseling, and support services.
​1 IN 3 WOMEN WILL EXPERIENCE
​DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THEIR LIFETIME
100% of the proceeds for this fundraiser will be used for “Emergency Client Needs.”
​These funds help pay for things that are not covered by our regular grants such as emergency transportation (i.e. local cab fares, air fare from remote sites) and other emergency services or items that we don’t typically have donated or keep on hand.  Each client situation is unique and emergency needs for victims and their children vary.  Survivors of domestic violence may have to leave home quickly during a dangerous crisis situation and may not be able to bring anything with them but the clothes on their backs.

The ability to provide for Emergency Client Needs is an important part of our mission to support and empower survivors.  We are grateful that our community partner agencies often assist with these types of expenses, but available funding cannot always meet these needs.

We need your help. Your donations can help clients find safety so they can begin to build a new life.

This is an online fundraising event.  Please like and follow KWRCC on Facebook to stay up to date on the success of this event.

Domestic Violence in Alaska
Courtesy of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence

WHAT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE?
Domestic Violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systemic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against an other.  It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, and emotional abuse.  The frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically.  
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN ALASKA
  • 43.3% of Alaska women and 30.2% of Alaska men experience intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking in their lifetimes.  
  • Alaska has the third-highest intimate partner violence against women lifetime prevalence in the United States.
  • Alaska has the homicide rate for female victims killed by a male perpetrator in the nation.  
  • More than 84% of American Indian/Alaska Native women experience violence during their lifetimes.  Alaska has the largest Native population as a percent total population in the United States.
  • As of December 31, 2019, Alaska had submitted two misdemeanor domestic violence records and 1,932 active protective order records to the NICS Index.
DID YOU KNOW?
  • Do you know that 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner. 
  • On a typical day, local domestic violence hotlines receive approximately 19,159 calls, approximately 13 calls every minute.  
  • In 2018, domestic violence accounted for 20% of all violent crime.
  • Abusers' access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner femicide at least five-fold.  When firearms have been used in the most severe abuse incident, the risk increases 41-fold.
  • 65% of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner; 96% of the victims of these crimes are female.
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FIREARMS LAWS IN ALASKA
  •  When issuing a final protective order, a court may prohibit a respondents from owning a firearm if they were in actual possession and/or used a firearm during a domestic violence incident, including dating partners.  The court may require the respondent to surrender their firearms after such an order is issued.
  • Although Alaska statute does not explicitly prohibit respondents to ex parte protective orders from owning firearms, judges are authorized to order whatever relief they deem necessary to protect the petitioner.  The may include prohibiting firearm access to firearms and requiring surrender.  
  • Alaska can strengthen her laws by
    • ​Prohibiting domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking misdemeanants from owning firearms;
    • Prohibiting all people subject to ex parte or final protective orders from owning firearms;
    • Requiring surrender of firearms when and abuser becomes prohibited;
    • If requested by the survivor, requiring law enforcement to recover all firearms when responding to domestic violence calls; and
    • Requiring background checks for all gun sales and transfers.
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