In Minnesota, at least 24 percent of the claims submitted to the state Crime Reparations office were related to domestic violence during fiscal year 2004.
Types of expenses paid with reparation funds included medical care, counseling, funeral and burial services, lost wages, loss of support for survivors, and other expenses such as child care.
- Minnesota Crime Victims Reparations Board, Fiscal Year 2004 Annual Report Minnesota Department of Public Safety, Office of Justice Programs
Reducing domestic and sexual violence was the #1 priority in 2003 of women surveyed in the United States.
-The Center for the Advancement of Women
In fiscal year 2003, 6,437 women and 6,578 children were provided with emergency safe housing.
-Office of Justice Programs, Minnesota Department of Public Safety
In fiscal year 2003, almost 65,000 primary and secondary victims received services from Minnesota’s battered women’s programs.
-Office of Justice Programs, Minnesota Department of Public Safety
One of every three homeless women in Minnesota is homeless at least in part due to domestic violence.
-Wilder Research Center, 2003
In Minnesota: In each year since 1995, more than 13,000 Orders for Protection
were filed
- MN Supreme Court Database - 7th Judicial District Computer Center 12/2000; R. Rewerz, TCIS Computer Center, Stearns County; December 1999-November 2000
