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violence against women and girls
Sexual Violence and Title IX: Ensuring Success in School
Sexual violence is occurring in our nation’s high schools in staggeringly high numbers. Even though it remains an extremely underreported crime, the available data points to its prevalence in secondary schools. Almost 4,000 incidents of sexual battery and over 800 rapes and attempted rapes...
Ensuring Success in School Task Force Releases Final Report to the Illinois General Assembly
Students who are parents, expectant parents, or survivors of domestic or sexual violence face unique challenges as they try to stay in school, stay safe while in school, and successfully complete their education. Failing to complete school can have life-long consequences, with high school dropouts...
Adding Eviction to Injury: When Did It Become OK to Blame Crime Victims?
Congress and several states take actions to stop evictions of victims of violence For women and children in this country, domestic violence is one of the leading causes of homelessness. Survivors of domestic violence (of which 90 to 95% are women), dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking...
Sex Education: The Debate Continues
New research and new legislation on abstinence-only sex education has brought the ongoing debate between abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education to a new pitch. A little context: abstinence-only sex education received small amounts of funding in the 1980s, but got its real start during the...
A Victory in Illinois: Making the Case for Inclusion of Workplace Protections in the Federal Violence Against Women Act
The effects of domestic and sexual violence are not checked at the door when a survivor of violence enters her place of employment. Oftentimes individuals who experience domestic or sexual violence report missing work due to the violence in their lives, enduring harassment by the abuser at work,...