Reaction Paper The Cost of Domestic Violence - 1087 Words

On our field of observation we went to the Family Justice Center of Sonoma County, this is a place where that provides and promote a safe community for people that have been a victim of a crime. The specialist such as doctors, psychiatrist and physicians provide assistance to survivors of domestic and relationship violence, elder abuse, sexual assault, as well as recently a deaf and hearing abuse victims. The FJCSC is one of the seventeen places in the state to help victims and one out of eighty victims of crime in the United States. The FJCSC is a one stop shop where as other facilities require you to make 21 different stops to get the same service. Last year the family justice center helped 14 hundred victims. Those victims brought at†¦show more content†¦Then the executive director Wes Winter took us out where we came from and took us to a different door which lead to many doors. He mentioned that whenever they bring victims in they kind of confuse them from where they ca me in and how they get out. There were many exits and entrances to each room, maybe about two entrances and two exits. They do this as a safety hazard. They’ll confuse the victims in case one is not really a victim and is just there to see the entrances and exits of the building so when there victim comes in the fake victim can find and abuse the victim. The family justice center has about 7-10 victims a day. One of the many things I found interesting about the family center is that when mothers, and sometimes fathers, come in as victims and have children with them, they have a special space for them. There they have toys, books, stuffed animals, and other small little things a child would enjoy. When a parent is being interviewed the parent and child are separated, but there is a window in the interview room where either of them can be looking. 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