Do you want to involve law enforcement and participate in a potential criminal investigation?

No, there are 2 options:

1. A Medical Report is when you choose to have a SANE completed, but choose to not participate in the criminal justice process. The evidence is collected and, along with your identifying information, is released to law enforcement. You can choose to have the evidence tested or not, though you will need to be in contact with law enforcement if you choose to have it tested. The evidence collection portion of the exam will be billed to Colorado Department of Criminal Justice. You may choose at a later date to make a law enforcement report by contacting the local law enforcement agency. You can request a SANE locally by calling Garfield County Dispatch at 970-625-8095 and request a call back from the “on call nurse”.
2. An Anonymous Report is when you choose to have a SANE completed and choose to not participate in the criminal justice process. The evidence is collected and released to law enforcement without your identifying information, law enforcement is only storing the evidence, it cannot be tested. The evidence collection portion of the exam will be billed to Colorado Department of Criminal Justice. You may choose at a later date to make a law enforcement report by contacting the local law enforcement agency. You can request a SANE locally by calling Garfield County Dispatch at 970-625-8095 and request a call back from the “on call nurse”. 

Want to know more…

• Domestic Violence Power and Control Wheel
  www.ncdsv.org/images/PowerControlwheelNOSHADING.pdf
• Teen Dating Violence Power and Control Wheel
  www.loveisrespect.org/is-this-abuse/power-and-control-wheel/
• Human Trafficking Power and Control Wheel
  org/resources/human-trafficking-power-and-control-wheel
• Signs of an Abusive Personality
  org/signs-of-abuse
• Human Trafficking Myths
  org/what-human-trafficking/myths-misconceptions

How do I know…

• Teen Dating Violence Quizzes
  loveisrespect.org/printable-quizzes/
• Do You Think You’re Being Abused? Questions
  org/do-you-think-youre-being-abused
• Recognize the Signs of Human Trafficking
  org/human-trafficking/recognizing-signs

Statistics

Locally:

ASP continues to experience a higher need of services in 2021 compared to prior the pandemic.  The impact on survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence in Garfield County has been significant.

• ASP handled over 569 crisis calls, a 32% increase from 2020;
• ASP provided services to a total of 655 survivors, a 13% increase from 2020;
• ASP’s Safehouse Program safely sheltered 36 families with 34 children, a 66% increase from 2020, for 1,994 nights, a 64% increase from 2020;
• ASP served 167 Latinx survivors, a 25% increase from 2020; and
• ASP provided approximately the same number of families rental assistance in its Housing First Program in 2020 and 2021, but the number of months of rent assistance provided was 19% more in 2021 than in 2020.

In 34 years (1987-2021), we:

• Trained over 522 volunteer Help Line Advocates who handled over 27,000 Help Line calls;
• Provided over 43,665 nights of safe shelter for 1,158 survivors and their 1,171 children; and
• Conducted over 2,450 educational presentations in our community.

Garfield County handles approximately 400 domestic violence arrests per year.

Colorado:

• 8% of Colorado women and 30.5% of Colorado men experience intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner sexual violence and/or intimate partner stalking in their lives. (1)
• 32 Coloradans were killed by former or current intimate partners in 2018; almost 2/3 of those were killed using firearms. (2)
• 15% of homicides in Colorado were committed by intimate partners.

Annual-Report_202001.pdf. (3)

Nationally:

• In the United States, more than 10 million adults experience domestic violence annually. (4)
• If each of these adults experienced only once incidence of violence, an adult in the US would experience violence every three seconds. However, because domestic violence is a pattern, many experience repeated acts of abuse annually, so an incident of abuse happens far more frequently than every three seconds.
• 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience severe physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. (5)
• Intimate partner violence is most common against women between the ages of 18-24.11 • 19% of intimate partner violence involves a weapon. (6)
• Smith, S.G., Chen, J., Basile, K.C., Gilbert, L.K., Merrick, M.T., Patel, N., Walling, M., & Jain, A. (2017). The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey (NISVS): 2010-2012 state report. Atlanta: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/NISVS-StateReportBook.pdf.
• Colorado Office of the Attorney General (2019). Colorado domestic violence fatality review board 2nd annual report. Denver. Retrieved from https://coag.gov/app/uploads/2020/01/CDVFRB-2019-Annual-Report_202001.pdf.
• Colorado State Government (2020). Violent crime, 2019. Retrieved from https://coloradocrimestats.state.co.us/tops/report/violent-crimes/colorado/2019
• Black, M.C., Basile, K.C., Breiding, M.J., Smith, S.G., Walters, M.L., Merrick, M.T., Chen, J. & Stevens, M. (2011). The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey: 2010 summary report. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/nisvs_report2010-a.pdf.
• Smith, S.G., Zhang, X., Basile, K.C., Merrick, M.T., Wang, J., Kresnow, M. & Chen, J. (2018). The national intimate partner and sexual violence survey: 2015 data brief – updated release. Atlanta: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/2015data-brief508.pdf.
• Morgan, R.E., & Oudekerk, B.A. (2019). Criminal victimization, 2018. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Retrieved from https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf

For more Statistics:

Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault https://www.ccasa.org/

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence https://ncadv.org/  

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network https://rainn.org/

Violence Free Colorado https://www.violencefreecolorado.org/