City of Rockford issued the following announcement on Dec. 10.
Funded with a three-year grant administered by the the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, the City will hire eight employees — a client services manager, two front-line crisis navigators, four case managers, and a training and care coordinator — to operate the Family Peace Center through a lens that recognizes most survivors are victims of more than one crime.
"Really what we are talking about is that domestic and sexual violence doesn’t occur in a bubble. It occurs at points and times when people are already likely to have some trauma in their lives from things like poverty, things like racism, things that are completely outside of their control. They may have already been a victim of violence before they were sexually assaulted or a victim of domestic violence, so it really seeks to get an idea of root causes." - Jennifer Cacciapaglia, Manager of the Mayor's Office of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking Prevention.
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Rockford
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