New York J 356: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim February 24, 2025, as Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Day in the State of New York

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J00356 Summary:

BILL NOJ00356 

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SPONSORWEBB

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02/25/2025REPORTED TO CALENDAR FOR CONSIDERATION

02/25/2025ADOPTED

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Senate Resolution No. 356

BY: Senator WEBB

 MEMORIALIZING Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim
 February 24, 2025, as Domestic Violence Awareness
 and Prevention Day in the State of New York

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence is a pattern of coercive behavior and
tactics used by someone against their intimate partner in an attempt to
gain or maintain power and control, and types of abuse can include
physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, technological and economic
abuse or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that
influence another person within an intimate partner relationship; and

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence is not limited to specific groups based
on race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation,
ethnicity, age, religious affiliation or social location, but rather is
perpetrated by abusers from all social groups; and

 WHEREAS, On average, nearly 24 people per minute are victims of
rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner in the
United States -- more than 12 million people over the course of a year;
and

 WHEREAS, On average, one in three women and one in four men
experience some form of domestic violence or interpersonal violence in
their lifetime, and approximately 1.5 million women and 835,000 men are
raped and/or physically assaulted by an intimate partner each year in
the United States; and

 WHEREAS, Due to systemic racism, racist policies, and racist
societal structures, both Black women and Black men experience intimate
partner violence at a disproportionately high rate with 45.1 percent of
Black women and 40.1 percent of Black men experiencing intimate partner
physical violence, intimate partner sexual violence, and/or intimate
partner stalking in their lifetimes; and

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence affects the LGBTQ+ community at a rate
equal to or even greater than that experienced by the cisgender,
heterosexual community, with 43.8 percent of lesbian women and 26
percent of gay men experiencing rape, physical violence, and/or stalking
by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime, and 54 percent
of the transgender and gender non-conforming community have reported
experiencing some form of intimate partner violence, with transgender
women of color experiencing heightened levels of violence; and

 WHEREAS, According to a study from the National Institute of
Justice, more than half of Native American and Alaska Native women have
experienced physical violence at the hands of an intimate partner; and

 WHEREAS, Nearly 20.9 percent of female high school students and 13.4
percent of male high school students report being physically or sexually
abused by a dating partner, and 43 percent of dating college women
report experiencing violent or abusive behaviors from their partner; and

 WHEREAS, Researchers estimate that between 3.3 million and 10
million children are exposed to adult intimate partner violence each
year; children who witness intimate partner violence growing up are at
increased risk for delinquency, greater mental health problems, and the
potential for intergenerational violence in dating and intimate partner
relationships; and

 WHEREAS, Domestic violence survivors experience a host of physical
and mental health-related consequences at far greater rates than their
counterparts who have not been abused; and

 WHEREAS, According to an annual survey conducted by the National
Network to End Domestic Violence, New York State consistently has the
greatest demand for domestic violence services in the country with
10,456 survivors requesting services on just one day in 2023, and 1,045
unfulfilled service requests on that same day because of insufficient
resources or staff; and

 WHEREAS, In 2023, there were 234,465 orders of protection issued
that required entry in the New York State Registry, a 10 percent
incre