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Hope this does not get political as I see it more as a matter of public health. What more do you think could be done for victims/survivors of domestic violence than the 2013 Violence Against Women Act? I know that there are hotlines and such as well as community programs but how well are they really advertised? Should this not be a priority to make resources known to someone that may not know of their existence?
I know I talked about the frustrations I was having with helping with this problem first from with the law librarianship profession and then looking in from the outside with the UCSF School of Public Health as subject 613.
I had outlined my experiences with this back in late 1992 to early 1993 while a subject (613) in a study on the stress on the unemployed at the University of California at San Francisco School of Public Health and the researcher had seemed to agree that such access should be made known to as many people as possible.
From mid 1992 onward, I had tried to do that by getting public, medical, and law libraries to dialog with victim right providers about whatever needs survivors and victims of violence might need.
Common sense would seem to dictate that more local the access points the better. Seems like the tail is wagging the dog so to speak if the resources available are reachable through a call to some DC or even State Capital hotline.
Should not there be as many access points as possible?
What are your reactions to this?
I have tried to get links to the Florida Victim Services Directory
http://myfloridalegal.com/directory into Villages' area public libraries which seems to me that the dog would be wagging the tail so to speak if these access points moved from the local to the national rather than the other way around.