Chicago-Cook County Violence Against Women Task Force First Responders Safety and Health Working Group 4/28/2026

Violence Against Women Task Force (Cook County) · April 28, 2026

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Opening and purpose

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Meeting opened and organizers set purpose: a working group on violence against women that will include government agencies and frontline service providers. Katie Dunn (Violence Against Women Task Force) welcomed participants and noted the volume of domestic calls to Chicago police (~350 per day).

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A Cook County Violence Against Women Task Force meeting focused on first-responder mental health. Clinical psychologist Dr. Lisa Franklin described how officer stress and moral injury can worsen outcomes in domestic-violence responses and urged routine, low-barrier wellness checks and roll-call psychoeducation; participants discussed insurance, grant funding and implementation barriers.

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