KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Ulster County District Attorney’s office has been awarded a $500,000 grant through the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women to improve law enforcement’s response to incidents of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The DA’s office, in collaboration with the National Network for Safe Communities at
The program represents a “cultural shift” in the way law enforcement and the community approach intimate partner violence, said Elizabeth Culmone-Mills, an assistant district attorney who heads the Domestic Violence Unit at the DA’s office and is the operational director for the Intimate Partners Violence Intervention program. It is an approach that places the onus
On July 20, 2021, the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) Law Enforcement Webinar Series presented a webinar entitled “The Intimate Partner Violence Intervention’s Impact on Kingston Offenders and Victims”. The Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI) is a violence reduction strategy created by the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC). IPVI is
The Intimate Partner Violence Intervention (IPVI) uses the National Network principles that have informed effective interventions against homicide, gun violence, drug markets, and other critical public safety problems and applies them to intimate partner violence. Through a partnership between law enforcement, community members, social service providers, and victims’ advocates, the IPVI strategy aims to remove
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A new strategy is changing the way Kingston, New York, addresses the harms of intimate-partner violence. “We had been putting the burden on the victim to remove themselves from an abusive relationship,” says Elizabeth Culmone-Mills, Senior Assistant District Attorney for the Special Victims Bureau in the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office, regarding the way law
By focusing on what survivors should or shouldn’t do, we’re blaming them for their own abuse and placing the onus for justice on them. There’s a better way. By Rachel Teicher, director of Intimate Partner Violence Intervention programs at the National Network for Safe Communities
The IPVI intervenes early on with intimate partner violence offenders known to the criminal justice system. Developed by the National Network for Safe Communities (NNSC) at John Jay College. The initiative offers supportive services to offenders and, when necessary, addresses the most dangerous individuals through enforcement actions.
“It’s an exceptionally challenging time right now — it’s unlike anything that most people have experienced, especially on this broad and deep a scale,” Rachel Teicher, a domestic violence expert, told Oxygen.com. “Anything that was underlying to begin with — abuse, violence, tension, coercion — is only going to be amplified because there’s very little stability or normalcy,
Reports of domestic abuse in three cities have dropped. But police and experts say that may be a problem… That’s why Rachel Teicher, director of the intimate partner violence Intervention program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s National Network for Safe Communities, said essential businesses such as pharmacies and grocery stores should become a