Safe House Denver urges Northglenn to build protective services around new Adams County Family Justice Center

Natasha Adler, director of survivor services for Safe House Denver, told the Northglenn City Council on May 5 that domestic violence is typically a pattern of behavior and that coordinated, multi‑agency response through a Family Justice Center can reduce harm and lower barriers to safety.

Adler opened by defining domestic violence as “a pattern of behaviors over time that involve intimate partners, either current partners or past partners,” and described how abuse can be both overt and subtle. She cited Colorado crime statistics showing Northglenn had “about 50 to 200 cases per year in the past five years,” Thornton roughly 800 per year and Adams County about 200–300 per year, while Denver reports several thousand cases. Adler said strangulation, the presence of firearms, stalking, prior…