Berthoud Community Library District

Discusses the procedures and limitations put on people who are convicted with domestic violence and the rights as a victim of domestic abuse.

Colorado Department of Human Services, Domestic Violence Program (DVP) was contacted by several crisis centers who expressed confusion regarding State Rule 12 CCR 2512-2 (DVP), and 12.201.2.C.6, which instructs advocates to notify victims that reporting "danger to self or others" in addition to mandatory child abuse reporting, is an exception to confidentiality. The purpose of this Guide is to clearly communicate the DVP rule related to danger to...

"Alice gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect...Oren, ten years old, a major Star Wars fan and wise beyond his years. Though Alice is wary, Oren bonds nearly instantly with...Mattie, a social worker in her fifties who lives in an enormous run-down house in the middle of the woods. Mattie lives alone and is always available, and so she is the person the hotline always...

"At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha...

When Frances' husband punches her again, she believes he's crossed the line--that the next time he will kill her. She decides to put her life--and that of her son--in the hands of a network which helps women start over. She becomes Beth and begins a new life in Florida with her son. It could be wonderful ... but she lives in fear of being found by Bobbie.