Holistic approach to countering domestic violence yields positive results

“Prior to this project being implemented, the statistics were showing that domestic violence occurrences were increasing in our communities,” she said. “We did do an update on our statistics, and they are showing a reduction.”

Many of the domestic calls in the past didn’t necessarily result in charges, she noted, but were clearly worrying, especially since they were growing in number.

“These were cases where someone might be having an argument or disagreement with their spouse and police were called, but it didn’t escalate to a Criminal Code offence,” she said. “That’s what this program has been geared towards — so that we can address it at the forefront, give people the skills and tools to deal with certain situations, make their family a healthy unit, from a more proactive standpoint.”

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