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Peaceful Paths urges wider recognition of domestic violence patterns, outlines services and shelter capacity
Summary
Peaceful Paths presented an overview of domestic/intimate partner violence, services offered in Gainesville and surrounding counties, and the barriers survivors face; commissioners discussed law-enforcement coordination and resource gaps.
Crystal Sorrow, chief executive officer of Peaceful Paths, told the City of Gainesville General Policy Committee that domestic violence is a pattern of power and control and more common than many residents realize.
Sorrow outlined the nonprofit’s services and capacity, saying, “Our mission is to save lives and create change,” and describing emergency shelter, a supportive housing campus, legal help for injunctions, trauma counseling and economic-empowerment programming.
She told commissioners the agency operates a walk-in outreach center Monday through…
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