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The Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) is a United States law, first authorized as part of the Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 (PL 98–457), that provides federal funding to help victims of domestic violence and their dependent children by providing shelter and related help, offering violence prevention programs, and improving how service agencies work together in communities.
Multiple school and community leaders from the Austin area gathered Friday to implore parents to help them combat a growing trend of threats made against campuses at a time when 13 students have ...
The White House released the United States' first strategy to address "ideologically inspired" violence in August 2011. [1] Entitled Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States (National Strategy for Empowering Local Partners), the eight-page document outlines "how the Federal Government will support and help empower American communities and their local partners ...
The management of domestic violence deals with the treatment of victims of domestic violence and preventing repetitions of such violence. The response to domestic violence in Western countries is typically a combined effort between law enforcement , social services , and health care .
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Alarmed parents swarmed a Texas high school after a shooting was reported on campus, leading to a chaotic clash with police. Jefferson High School went into lockdown on Tuesday, Sept. 20 ...
Futures Without Violence was a driving force behind passage of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994—the nation’s first comprehensive federal response to the violence that plagues families and communities. Congress reauthorized and expanded the law in 2000, 2005, and 2013.
A Michigan prosecutor on Friday filed charges against the parents of the 15-year-old suspect in last week’s high school shooting in Oxford Township, Mich., which left four students dead and ...