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City-county domestic-violence commission outlines data, communications and prevention priorities; committee asks for pilot and reporting details
Summary
The City-County Collaborative on Domestic Violence presented its 2025 progress report emphasizing data consolidation, a layered communications campaign (including a billboard effort with Clear Channel) and early healthy-relationship education; councilmembers requested lists of providers, pilot curricula for schools and updates on a fatality-review process.
Maria Via Gomez and Judge Monique Diaz, co-chairs of the City-County Collaborative on Domestic Violence (CCDV), presented the CCDVs 2025 progress report to the Public Safety Committee, describing a three-pronged strategy of improving data acquisition and use, implementing a comprehensive communications campaign, and incorporating healthy-relationship education early in life.
Maria said the CCDV was established in 2019 to coordinate nonprofit, law enforcement, judiciary, public-health and other partners and that the commission is working toward a single repository to consolidate countywide police reports, United Way 211 contacts, nonprofit service counts and court protective-order data. She said the collaborative is piloting a community assessment and considering a lived-experience advisory board to ensure programming aligns with survivors needs.
Judge Monique Diaz described communications and prevention efforts: an annual domestic-violence awareness symposium that drew more than 500 participants last year, a social-media storytelling campaign and a billboard partnership with Clear Channel that the CCDV reported generated about 58,000,000 impressions. The CCDV is partnering with UTSA on focus groups and a planned survey to tailor messaging and to take an evidence-based approach to measuring impact.
Councilmembers emphasized prevention and measurement. Councilwoman Spears asked how the CCDV will assess outcomes and whether pilot programs could be run in targeted neighborhoods and after-school settings. Councilman Castillo suggested exploring curriculum use in corrections settings and asked about the status of a lived-experience advisory board; CCDV leaders said the advisory board is a five-year priority expected to begin next calendar year.
Martha Pelaez, a CCDV participant, highlighted an increase in men reporting domestic violence (a 12% rise over two years) and described plans to expand batterer intervention programming (BIP) including compressed session dosing in detention to improve completion rates. The CCDV also explained a complex case review pilot and a domestic-violence fatality review process that will include multi-agency participation and survivor input on draft findings to avoid revictimization.
The committee requested follow-up materials: the CCDVs statistical report (expected in October), lists of providers and delegate agencies, and information on schools reached by the Human Exploitation Unit and other outreach. The presentation concluded with recognition of cross-sector partners and a pledge to return with subcommittee progress in the fall.
No formal council votes were taken on CCDV policy during the meeting.
