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How Can
You Support the
Betty Ann Krahnke Center?
Donations
Monetary donations:
Please call 301-840-3208 to get more information,
or visit our website at
www.fs-inc.org.
Depending upon your level
of donation, your name or business name
can be printed on the center's marketing
materials and website. The center is
also looking for donations to help with
landscaping, painting and/or decorating
of common room areas.
Supply Wish List
- Gift Cards (Grocery/Clothing Stores,
Gas Stations)
- Diapers
- Plastic Bins
- Formula
- Bottles
- Sippy Cups
- Slippers for Children
- Baby Wipes
- Infant Car Seats
- Toddler Car Seats
- Booster Car Seats
- Towels
- Stuffed Animals (NEW)
- Toiletries
- Highchairs
- Single Bed Sheets
- Blankets
- Welcome Baskets
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The Betty
Ann Krahnke Center (BAK), founded
in 2000, is the only domestic violence
shelter serving Montgomery County,
Maryland. With a 54-bed capacity,
BAK provides safety for women and
their children, support in trauma
recovery and empowerment to increase
their personal safety within the
community. With
the assistance of individual therapists
and case managers, women are empowered
to create a new future for themselves
and their children that is free
of abuse, coercion and fear.
BAK serves
more than 200 abused women and nearly
350 children.
Currently, 60% of those residing
at the center are children from
newborns to 18 years old. To download
a brochure, please click
HERE.
- Occurs
in all age, racial, gender, religious,
socio-economic, educational
and occupational groups
- Is
learned behavior
- Involves
repetitive behavior encompassing
different types of abuse:
physical, sexual, psychological,
emotional and financial
- Involves
repetitive behavior encompassing
different types of abuse:
physical, sexual, psychological,
emotional, and financial
- Differentially
affects men and women; Women experience
more violence, more severe
violence and more serious injuries
than male victims of domestic
violence
Domestic
Violence is of Epidemic Proportions:
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Every
15 seconds a woman is beaten
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1
in 3 or 4 women is battered once
in her lifetime
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Annually,
more than 4,000 men murder their
intimate partners
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The
cost of domestic violence exceeds
5.8 billion dollars each
year. 4.1 billion of that amount
is for direct medical
and mental health service
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