STANDING FIRM Against Partner Violence
If you own or manage a business, you cannot afford to write off the issue of partner violence as a private matter confined to the home. With daily accounts in the news and more than one million people reporting a violent assault by an intimate partner each year, we cannot ignore the problem. In Pennsylvania alone, approximately 100,000 victims of partner violence seek assistance every year.
At STANDING FIRM, we identify ourselves as “The Business Case to End Partner Violence.” We assist companies of all types and sizes to implement policies that deal with partner violence and its impact upon the work place.
STANDING FIRM equips employers with the knowledge necessary to address the financial, safety and human costs of partner violence on the workplace. It arms your company or organization with the necessary tools to take effective action regardless of the size and structure of your workforce.
Whether your company employs 10 or 10,000, partner violence has far-reaching consequences. In fact, more than half of partner violence related homicides of female employees in the U.S. occur in workplaces with fewer than 20 employees. Some other startling facts:
• 94% of corporate security directors rank partner violence as a high security problem
• 74% of abusers report having easy access to their intimate partner’s workplace, with 21% of them admitting contacting the victim at the workplace in violation of a no-contact agreement
• Nationally, 25% of workplace violence events are related to domestic violence.
We encourage you to go to our website for more information: standingfirmswpa.org, and we invite you to contact us with any concerns you may have regarding partner violence at your place of business.
Not a manager or business owner and would like to see your employer address the realities of domestic violence? Please let us know! We’ll be happy to let them know all of the services we can provide. Call 412.421.3682.
