Emergency Sheltering costs up 76% due to COVID-19
COVID-19 has caused many changes for our normal daily lives but for most victims/survivors, there has been an additional obstacle to safety of being isolated with an abusive partner. Because victims/survivors are not able to connect or stay with their friends or family they are seeking our services more than ever. Since May of 2020, […]
Johnson County Human Trafficking Coalition: Reasons For Getting Involved with the Coalition
DVIP’s is a proud partner of the Johnson County Human Trafficking Coalition (JCHTC): a group of medical providers, law enforcement officials, attorneys, community agency providers, and education staff that are working to raise awareness on the issue of human trafficking in our community and take steps to actively combat it through education and outreach. Below […]
Johnson County Human Trafficking Coalition: Reasons For Getting Involved with the Coalition
DVIP’s is a proud partner of the Johnson County Human Trafficking Coalition (JCHTC): a group of medical providers, law enforcement officials, attorneys, community agency providers, and education staff that are working to raise awareness on the issue of human trafficking in our community and take steps to actively combat it through education and outreach. Below […]
Transitional and Permanent Housing at DVIP
With the eviction moratorium in Iowa coming to a close recently, the number of families struggling to pay rent due to unemployment or reduced hours is predicted to continue increasing across Iowa. On Friday May 29th, 2020, Governor Reynolds allocated federal CARES Act funds to assist Iowans who have been economically impacted by COVID-19 and […]
Wear Orange June 5th, 2020
We invite you to Wear Orange June 5th, 2020 for National Gun Violence Awareness DayIn 2013, 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in Chicago. After her death, her friends and family wore orange to honor Hadiya, and the hundreds of Americans killed and wounded by gun violence every day. Every year since then, to […]
Updated Top Needs!
Since the start of the pandemic, we have been quickly adapting to all of the unprecedented situations that COVID-19 and social distancing has called for. As a result, top needs are changing every day for the victims/survivors DVIP serves. Please check our “Top Needs List” weekly to stay up to date on the most-needed items […]
COVID-19 Updates and Current Needs
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has certainly jolted all of our ways of life: as of today, 90% of the American public is under stay-at-home orders. While many of us have the option to stay at home and feel safe, victims of domestic violence do not have that option. Sheltering in place, for victims of intimate […]
Hold Senator Ernst Accountable
On August 21st Senator Ernst met with staff of the Domestic Violence Intervention Program and pledged her support to sponsor the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA). Last week Senator Joni Ernst made a floor statement in which she reported that negotiations had broken down and characterized H.R.1585 (VAWA) as a partisan political […]
DVIP’s Remarkable 40 Years of Service
Today, the Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP) provides a range of comprehensive services and fundamental support for victim/survivors in eight Southeastern counties – Johnson, Iowa, Cedar, Washington, Des Moines, Henry, Lee, and Van Buren. The story of DVIP, its expansion, and improvements go back 40 critical years that were only possible because of the relentless […]