Why We Need to Exist

National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233

More than 1 in 3 women (approximately 36%) have or will experience physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner. This number is higher in Arizona.
Arizona has the 5th highest reported domestic violence rate in the nation.
1 in 3 murder victims in the United States are killed by a domestic partner.
Every 44 minutes, a child in Arizona witnesses domestic violence.
Pregnant women are more likely to be abused by their domestic partner.

Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, or transporting of a person for labor or services, usually sexual, by force, fraud, or coercion.
Traffickers routinely target minors who have been the victims of abuse or neglect and who lack a stable support system.
The average age of entry into sex trafficking in the United States is 17.
The average age of entry into sex trafficking in Arizona is 13.

Physical This is the type of abuse that many people think of when they hear the word 'abuse. ... Hitting, slapping, punching, kicking, burning,strangulation,damaging personal property,refusing medical care and/or controlling medication,coercing partner into substance abuse and use of weapons.
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Verbal/Emotional
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Financial/Economic
Cultural/Identity
- Approximately 67% of homeless women have been the victims of domestic violence.
- Each year in Arizona, approximately 100 people are killed as the result of acts of domestic violence.
- 71% of pet-owning victims of domestic violence report that their abuser threatened, injured, or killed their pet.
- More than 40% of domestic violence victims stay in dangerous situations because they do not have a place to take their pet.