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Community Health
Disability
Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Response
Native Peoples
School Health
Substance Abuse
Violence Against Women
Violence Prevention
Victim Services |
"Marcie Davis is recognized as the state expert on issues of violence
against women with disabilities. She has proven to be an invaluable
resource to the NM Crime Victims Reparation Commission."
Sheila Allen
VAWA Grant Administrator
Violence against women is a leading public health problem. Every eight seconds a woman is abused. There are multiple forms of abuse. For example:
- Physical – punching, choking, slapping, kicking, pinching, tripping, biting, pulling hair
- Economic – does not let her know about or have access to family income, makes her ask or beg for money, takes her money, prevents her from working or sabotages her at work
- Sexual – unwanted physical contact, forced intercourse or touching
- Spiritual – uses her religion against her, told divorce is a sin, tells her that god is not there to help her
- Verbal – Name-calling, puts her down, calls her crazy
- Intimidation – makes her afraid by using looks, actions, gestures, destroys property, abuses pets, use of weapons
- Isolation – controls what she does, whom she sees and talks to, limits outside involvement
- Use of children – threatens to take the children away, uses the children to relay mean messages, uses visitation to harass her, will not let children receive medical attention until she does what he says, not paying child support, etc.
Women with disabilities are two to five times more likely to be abused than any other population.
Davis Innovations works with state and federal agencies, non-profit organizations, associations, coalitions, and providers to end violence against all individuals.
Key Services
- Program design and development
- Project management
- Grant writing
- Policy development and analysis
- Researching and identifying protocols and best practices
- Assisting decision-makers in identifying and pursuing legislation
- Quality monitoring and program evaluation
Sample Projects
- Conducted a physical and programmatic assessment of ten domestic violence and sexual assault providers regarding service delivery to individuals with disabilities.
- Prepared training video and curriculum for victim advocates regarding serving individuals with disabilities who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, and/or stalking.
- Developed successful funding proposals for violence against women with disabilities projects.
- Designed and conducted violence against women public awareness campaigns.
- Developed and produced violence against women brochures and fact sheets.
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