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Domestic Violence Special Project Chairman 2010-2012 - Heidi Huisman
Continue to embrace the Domestic Violence Awareness Program during the 2010-2012 Adminstration. Become
aware and learn the facts about domestic violence in your community. Ask local shelters in your community what you can
do to help. Your club may wish to volunteer at the shelter, raise funds for shelters or choose a project that you can
work on all year. May each club be challenged to do more than ever in the 2010-2012 Administration in Domestic Violence
wareness projects.
2010 State Convention Awards
1st Place - GFWC/Iowa Tri Sigmas Club, Tipton, Dist I
2nd Place - GFWC/Iowa Mt Vernon Lisbon Club
President's Special Domestic Violence Monetary awards were presented to:
Domestice Violence Intervention Iowa City
Waypoint Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Intervention Cedar Rapids
Cedar Valley Friends of Family Waverly
Rural Iowa Crisis Center Creston
Domestic/Sexual Assault Outreach Center Ft. Dodge
Domestic/Sexual Assault Outreach Center Carroll
Council on Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Sioux City
Domestic Violence Special Chairman 2008-2010 - Heidi Huisman
Newsletter Fall 2008 Article by Heidi Huisman
I trust that everyone is geared up for the new 2008-2010 Administration. I am a member of the Dyersville Federated
Women.s Club and I thank President Nell Rider for appointing me as Chairman for the Domestic Violence Department.
I would encourage each club to look at the Domestic Violence Awareness Program in the Special Project section
of the Club manual. If at the very least, please be aware of domestic violence! There are several suggestions in what your
club can do in this area. There are awards given annually for clubs recognizing their efforts in this area. Be sure to send
in your reports to GFWC/Iowa and GFWC due February 1, 2009.
This summer, GFWC/Iowa provided monetary support to 3 shelters affected by the Floods of 2008. Is there something you can do locally?
Check out www.dvipiowa.org
Would you like to read some riveting stories? This April at the State Convention, one our guest speakers was
Katie Thompson, an author and victim of domestic violence. She shared her own story as well as touched on a few of the 31
stories which she has compiled into a book. To read these stories and find out information about the release of this new book,
check out www.31book.info
You can contact me at 563/543-8035 or E-mail: huisman5@hotmail.com
- In the United States a woman is battered every 9 seconds. (American Medical Association, 1991)
- Between 20,000 and 44,000 Iowa women suffer abuse in their homes every year. Between January 1990 and April 1997,
at least 66 women in Iowa were murdered by a husband or boyfriend.
- Of the 66 women that were murdered, 29 were know to have left their partner. Six were killed while leaving.
Two were killed in front of a law officer and two were killed in child visitation exchanges.
- There are 7 animal shelters for every 1 domestic violence shelter in Iowa (Bureau of Animal Welfare, 1995)
Children and Domestic Violence
- Child witnesses of domestic violence are victims of child abuse at a rate 1,500% higher than the national average.
(M. Strauss, R. Gelles & S. Steinmetz, eds. "Behind Closed Doors: Violence in the American Family" Garden City, NY: Anchor
Books, 1980
- In a 36 month study of 146 children, ages 11 to 17, from homes where wife beating was a major problem, all sons over the
age of 14 attempted to protect their mothers and 62% of them were injured in the process. (Ms Magazine, September/October
1994)
- 63% of the young men between the ages of 11 and 20 who are serving time for homicide have killed their mother's abuser.
(March of Dimes, 1992)
Show your pride in GFWC membership and awareness of domestic
violence with a plated purple ribbon pin and GFWC emblem (black rubber backing).
Dimensions: 2”L x 1 1/8”W
*Profits
from the sale of this item benefits the GFWC President's Special Project: Domestic Violence Awareness. $5.00 plus
postage This item is for sale through GFWC Marketplace http://gfwc.org
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