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Lee Conlee House

Prevention

Lee Conlee House's Prevention Program

Our prevention services offer programs designed to provide the necessary tools and resources to prevent violence before it has an opportunity to take place in one's life. Through prevention programs, which concentrate on skills for recognizing red flags, bullying, effective communication, emotional intelligence, behavior management, and self-esteem, Lee Conlee House is able to help support youth in making positive decisions about their lives and their futures. We are also able to provide training to local organizations and businesses on the affects of domestic violence in our community, and how to help.

Our Goal

To educate the community about domestic, dating, and sexual violence and motivate community members to take individual and collective action to stop domestic violence. The goal is not only to educate people on violence and its impact one one's personal life, but on the community as a whole. We focus our work within the community on the four factors of the social-ecological model in order to have the greatest impact in Putnam County:

  • Individual
  • Relationship
  • Community
  • Societal

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Our Mission


To impact the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of all individuals residing in Putnam County on the issue of domestic and sexual violence.

 

 

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Myths & Realities About Domestic Violence

Myth: A slap never hurt anyone

Reality: Domestic violence has nothing to do with a single isolated incident. Domestic violence can occur over a period of many years and becomes more frequent as time goes on. Physical injuries result in many women being hospitalized. This violence can lead to death; over one-third of all the murders in America take place between family members. Constant beating is also emotionally damaging and can lead to low self-esteem, little or no self-worth and little self-confidence.

Myth: Abused people are masochistic. They enjoy it or they would not stay in the relationship.

Reality: It is very difficult to leave an abusive relationship. Women may be reluctant to leave for a complex set of factors such as shame, economic dependence, insecurity about supporting their children alone, love or concern for the abuser. She may have to give up her home, her possessions, her work or her friends. When a woman does leave, it does not guarantee that she is safe. Abusers will often go to great lengths to trace their spouse or girlfriend in order to continue the abuse.

Myth: Abuse is restricted to poorly educated families from lower socioeconomic classes.

Reality: Abuse is found in every level of society. Survivors of different races or ethnicity all experience the same rate of battering. High school graduates and women with some college education have the highest rates of battering. Women in cities, suburbs, and rural areas all experience the same rate of abuse.

Myth: Domestic Violence is more/less common in heterosexual relationships than it is in LGBT relationships. Only heterosexual women are battered.

Reality: Based on several studies in the early 1990s, partner abuse occurs in 25-33% of LGBT relationships, which is roughly equal to prevalence of heterosexual domestic violence.

Myth: Domestic violence is a crime committed by men against women only.

Reality: We often think of abuse as only physical, and often males don’t experience outright physical abuse from their female abusers. To be sure, most survivors of domestic violence are female, but according to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, 15% of their callers are male victims.

Civil Injunction for Protection Project

FOR YOUR PROTECTION

The Civil Injunction for Protection Program Project attorneys provide free legal services that include:

  • Meeting with survivors to determine whether filing an injunction is safe and appropriate
  • Completing and filing petitions for injunctions for protection
  • Representation at the temporary and final injunction hearing
  • Representation at injunction violation hearings
  • Representation at a hearing to modify or extend an injunction
  • Representation at a hearing where an abuser is attempting to dissolve or dismiss the injunction

Your conversations with injunction for Protection Project attorneys and/or certified domestic violence center staff will be confidential and private.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

An injunction is a court order that can give you legal protection from the person who is abusing you. It may include an order that:

  • Commands the abuser to stay away from and have no contact with you.
  • Awards you temporary exclusive use of the house you both share.
  • Prevents the abuser from entering your home, school or place of employment.
  • Awards you temporary custody of your minor children.
  • Requires the abuser to pay temporary support to you and your minor children if the abuser is the parent.
  • Directs the abuser to attend a Batterer’s Intervention Program.

For purposes of obtaining an injunction, Florida law protects victims of Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Violence and Stalking, and defines them as follows:

  • Domestic violence includes any assault, battery, sexual assault, sexual battery, stalking, kidnapping or any other crime resulting in a physical injury caused by a spouse, former spouse, person related by blood or marriage, person who you are living together with as family, or have lived with as a family, or person with whom you have a child in common.
  • Dating Violence is violence between individuals who have or have had a continuing and significant relationship of a romantic or intimate nature. The relationship must have existed within the past six months.
  • Sexual Violence includes any one incident of sexual battery, a lewd or lascivious act committed on or in the presence of a person under 16 years of age, luring or enticing a child, or any other forcible felony where a sexual act is committed or attempted.
  • Stalking means the repeated following, harassment, or cyberstalking of one person by another. Cyberstalk means to engage in a course of conduct to communicate, or to cause to be communicated words, images, or language by or through the use of electronic mail or electronic communication, directed at a specific person and causing substantial emotional distress to that person and serving no legitimate purpose.

For injunction assistance, please call our agency at (386)-325-4447.