People working in legal, health, and advocacy professions all have important opportunities to help end domestic and intimate partner violence. To be part of the solution, we can learn to recognize the lethality red flags of stalking, strangulation, and suicidality. We honor the lives of people killed by domestic violence by learning valuable lessons from their stories and using that knowledge to shape policy, improve practices, and strengthen local responses.
Thank you for taking the time to do this training. I have been in this field of work now for three years and this is the first opportunity I have had to sit through this kind of training on this particular topic.
Fatality review teams offer communities an avenue to put this knowledge to work. Domestic violence fatality review teams can identify system responses that led to missed opportunities to hold aggressors accountable; going forward this can improve safety for victims of violence and further the development of a coordinated community response to violence.