Doing more to help victims of domestic violence, several organizations across
Jacksonville, including the
Hubbard House in Jacksonville
sheriff’s office are looking
deeper into local domestic
violence cases in hopes of
putting them to an end and
according to the latest
domestic violence fatality
review report in 2018 there
were 30 teen owner keep
that 13 domestic violence
related deaths in
Duval County. 12 were
specifically linked to an
intimate. And 5 of those
homicides happened when
children are present there’s
talk about the push for change
Hubbard how C e o yelp app
Patton.
Good morning. I’m those numbers
are terrified. They’re absolutely terrifying when we think about people that are
dying.
>> In relationships that they
thought were safe. It’s
alarming so we really need
people to understand that
domestic violence is deadly and
can be deadly
and that is just not a couple
arguing. It is about violence
in the home is about real
terrorism in the home.
>> I think a lot of people
don’t want to talk about it
that domestic violence can lead
to death.
to death. >> It absolutely can unfortunately those numbers
show it. So what we do at
Harvard houses, we offer
opportunities for survivors to
reach out to get help
to safety plan to find a safe
way to leave because one of the
most dangerous times for
survivors. It’s when they’re
planning to leave right after
they’ve left so we can help
them brainstorm ways to do that
in the safest
manner possible.
>> If someone who is right now
in a domestic violence
relationship. What do you say
to that person.
>> Why let them know they’re
not alone. There is help and we
do believe them and to please
call our hotline 1 80501
1, 1, 9, in order to get the
help that they need any more
than many cases they’ve been
threatened that if they leave.
>> Some harm will come to
another loved one and they
don’t want to you know what do
you say to those people.
What we say is believed those
threats because those threats
are real. So we tell them
if you’re planning to leave.
Let’s do it in a way that we
can mitigate is many of those
threats as possible.
>> And the children.
The impact this has on those
children, I mean 5 cases where
children were in
the home.
>> Right can you even imagine
old the child in seen your
loved one be murdered right in
front of your eye or other
possibly parent right and then
late last year in the child was
murdered
in the case of a domestic
violence while the brother
stood by watched too so we’re
talking about crime because it
is a crime and it’s a violent
crime that impacts not only the
direct victim but everybody in
that family who witness it or
know about the violence.
They are on pins and needles
and frayed for their was all
the time and the impact
of that on adults and children
is in measurable and that’s why
we’re here to help
not only during the domestic
violence, but after person gets
out to do that continual
counseling so that they can
find help and they can find
hope for future.
>> I want to kind of put a
positive there on this have you
seen a lot of
success cases.
>> We absolutely have and
actually we’re
having our and will Barber in
Campbell Memorial breakfast
coming up a home and during
that breakfast you’ll hear
story from a
survivor herself who’s talked
about her journey to freedom
and where she is today and it’s
very inspiring and people can
come to this breakfast if they
go to Hubbard House dot
org they can see how to get a
ticket was October 8 at 7.30.
They
they will be very humbled by
listening to the courage of
survivors.
>> Wow what is the wall first
step if you are in one of those
relationships, what is the
first step you can do right
now. Call
the hotline as you can call you
don’t have to give your real
name you can just talk about
what’s going on.
>> And learn more information
that can help you decide what
you want to do with your life.
>> I want to be very blunt
right now if you are in a
relationship and you think he
would never kill me.
It’s the reality we have to
imagine the worst.
>> We absolutely do because
domestic violence rarely stops
on its own in an often times
gets worse to the point of
death. Yeah, but there’s hope
there’s absolute hope and we’re
in the hope business and the life saving life changing business and we’re here for
people.
>> Thank you so much for
joining us. I hope that this
can possibly help someone at
home watching it right now or
share this with the loved one
that maybe is going through
this. Now you for more
information on domestic
violence awareness month
activities just visit Hubbard