Safety & Stability for Women
# of clients who are/have received legal assistance to resolve a legal dispute to improve safety & stability
Current Value
43
Definition
Victims of domestic violence (DV) often have various legal needs and being able to holistically address them all is necessary to ensure safety and stability. A DV survivor may need to have a Civil Protection Order (CPO) case filed to address emergency safety issues for themselves and their children, but may also need to have a divorce filed that disentangles them from the abuser. These are separate and distinctive legal filings, with different case numbers and different statutes that are invoked. Because of this a client's separate and distinctive legal disputes are being counted as unduplicated cases/clients served.
Story Behind the Curve
In this reporting period, the office did open/have open 64 cases. In fourteen of these cases, the office closed the case after losing contact with the client (the client stopped responding to communications from the office) so services were not provided. For the remaining 50 unique cases where we provided legal services, some of those cases were for legal issues in a different substantive area for the same client. We reported the 37 unduplicated clients that we served.
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