Guest column: Gallatin County should adopt a strangulation checklist
This guest column by Gallatin County Attorney Audrey Cromwell, Haven Executive Director Katie Madison, and Stacy Wesen of Gallatin County Victim Services appeared in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle on July 29.
A recent local case involving intimate-partner strangulation is a stark reminder of how quickly this type of violence can become lethal. We’re calling on all of our partners in Gallatin County to take the next step in strengthening our collective response to this crime: Let’s adopt and use a countywide strangulation protocol that includes a proven checklist to help every responder—dispatch, law enforcement, health care, advocacy and prosecution—recognize the danger, document accurate information and complete critical steps in their role.
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Understanding Montana’s Offender Intervention Program: What it is, why it matters, and how it supports accountability
Did you know that Montana’s legal system has a way of responding when someone is convicted of partner or family member assault?
Montana’s Offender Intervention Program, also called OIP, is one way the legal system responds when someone is convicted of these crimes. Through OIP, trained counselors work with people who’ve caused harm. The work focuses on abusive patterns, risk, responsibility, and safer ways to behave in relationships.
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Tell Congress: Keep the Office on Violence Against Women independent
The current administration is trying to fold the Office on Violence Against Women into a larger grant office within the Department of Justice. You can speak up for survivors today - tell Montana’s members of Congress this is a bad idea.
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Gallatin College, Accelerate Montana, Haven team up for job site training
Haven is partnering with Gallatin College and Accelerate Montana to help connect Haven participants and volunteers with Job Site Ready, a hands-on construction training coming to Bozeman June 17-18.
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Repost: What the Instagram privacy rollback means for survivor safety
Following Instagram turning off its ultra-private, encrypted direct messages feature, we’re reposting this blog from a project that looks at tech safety in the context of intimate partner violence and sexual assault.
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Haven advocate to lawmakers: Big overlap between trafficking, domestic violence
If lawmakers want to support survivors of sex trafficking in Montana, they can start by looking past common stereotypes, a Haven advocate told a Montana legislative panel recently.
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