Statistics

 

Domestic Violence Takes Its Toll…One Life at a Time

• Approximately 1.5 million women and 834,732 men are raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States.
  
  
• Analysis of news reports from the past eight years reveals that, on an average, an adult or child dies every three days in Pennsylvania as the result of domestic violence.*
  
  
• Approximately 17% of all people and 37% of women who sought treatment for violence-related injuries were hurt by a current or former intimate partner.*
  
  
• A National Institute of Justice study estimates that domestic violence accounts for almost 15% of total crime costs - $67 billion per year.

  *Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence

   

Service Statistics: July 2006 through June 2007	York Area	Hanover Area (Still Waters)
Adults & Children Sheltered	466	60
New Adult Victims Served	1,270	153
Continuing Adult Victims Served	687	116
New Children Served	255	38
Continuing Children Served	429	62
Number of Shelter Nights	7,277	3,169
Number of Counseling Hours	21,692.50	6,156.75
Number of Adults & Children in Bridge Housing	67
Number of Training's and Programs to Community Groups and Schools	272
Number Reached	8,939
Number of Volunteer Hours	4,437.50