Women’s crisis center in northern Kentucky

INTRODUCTION

Violence against women – particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence – is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights. Most of this violence is intimate partner violence. Worldwide, almost one third of women who have been in a relationship report that they have experienced some form of physical and sexual violence by their intimate partner in their lifetime. Intimate partner (physical, sexual and emotional) and sexual violence cause serious short- and long-term physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health problems for women. They also affect their children, and lead to high social and economic costs for women, their families and societies. In modern society many people believe that violence against women is the cause- women themselves. Women are afraid to ask for help. Women are afraid that their complaints and requests for help will be ignored. Women are afraid of being condemned and marginalized by society. Afraid of losing family, friends.

The object of the work: violence against women’s.

The aim of the work: introduce the Women’s Crisis Center in Northern Kentucky.

The objectives:

1. to describe the harms and consequences of violence against women’s;

2. to present the history and benefits Women’s Crisis Center in Northern Kentucky;

The methods: Women’s Crisis Center history, center help and benefit.

What can help women who are victims of violence? Women can be helped- Women’s Crisis Center. The full array of Women’s Crisis Center services is offered at no cost and with the highest

level of confidentiality to all survivors—inclusive of people of all genders, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. Women in crisis centers regain self-confidence, forget the pain they experience, fall in love with themselves and start enjoying life.

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1. THE HISTORY OF THE WOMEN’S CRISIS CENTER

In Northern Kentucky, Women’s Crisis Center’s roots run deep. Established in 1976 as the Rape Crisis Center of Northern Kentucky, Women’s Crisis Center (WCC) was formed to provide a 24-hour crisis hotline, crisis intervention, advocacy, community education, counseling and support services for rape survivors. In 1979, our name changed to reflect additional services being provided to battered women and their children. In WCC’s early days, women and children were sheltered in private homes within the community. The women's crisis center has its own website weecky.org and logo (look fig. 1.).

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