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City briefing outlines San Antonio's cross-department domestic- and intimate-partner violence work
Summary
A city violence-prevention official reviewed San Antonio's 2019 strategic plan and cross-department programs addressing domestic violence, described shifts to a victim-centered public-health approach, and provided data on calls, reports and services.
Erica Hayler Stevenson, Violence Prevention Administrator at Metro Health, briefed the San Antonio Public Safety Committee on the city's coordinated approach to domestic violence, describing a shift from a law-enforcement-driven model to a victim-centered public-health model and summarizing recent data and service capacity.
"Interpersonal violence is part of what you've been charged with, and I'm gonna talk about a subset of that called intimate partner violence or domestic violence," Erica Hayler Stevenson said as she opened the presentation.
Why it matters: The presentation laid out how multiple city departments and partner agencies share responsibility for prevention, crisis response and long-term support for survivors. Committee members identified follow-up questions about emergency lodging, recidivism data for municipal-court diversion…
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