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Six Facts About

People with Disabilities and Violence

People with disabilities have a higher lifetime prevalence of experiencing abuse than people without disabilities.

People with disabilities experience violent crime at twice the rate of people without disabilities.

People with disabilities are three times as likely to be sexually assaulted as their peers without disabilities.
In 2008, intimate partners perpetrated 27% of violent crime against women with disabilities and 1.1% of crime against men with disabilities.
Police are less likely to respond to reported violence against victims with disabilities than they are to report violence against victims without disabilities. Police respond to 90% of reports by victims without disabilities and 77% of reports by victims with disabilities.

A survey conducted by the Spectrum Institute of Disability and Abuse Project found that 70% of respondents with disabilities experience some form of abuse by an intimate partner, family member, caregiver, acquaintance, or stranger. Of those…

*87.2% experienced verbal/emotional abuse

*50.6% experienced physical abuse

*41.6% experienced sexual abuse

*37.4% experienced neglect

*31.5% experienced financial abuse

*37.3% reported the abuse to law enforcement

*Alleged perpetrators were arrested in 10% of abuse cases reported to law enforcement.

NCADV | National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. (2018). Retrieved 6 July 2022, from https://ncadv.org/blog/posts/domestic-violence-and-people-with-disabilities

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What

Work Are We Doing?

At ACESDV, we have made it a priority to focus on this population to provide better resources and education for survivors and advocates alike. We are currently working with survivors of disabilities through the Office of Violence Against Women grant, which allows us to better support, train, and advocate for this community. We have also partnered with local organization Ability360 to provide specific training around this initiative to all community partners.

Additionally, we receive funding through the Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council to provide education to sexual violence advocates, public fiduciaries, legal service providers, group homes, day treatment centers, independent living centers, community-based disability advocacy organizations, and long-term care facilities. Training to these organizations has been limited in the past, due to lack of existing knowledge and education. Our goal is to increase knowledge around sexual abuse among providers to prevent future abuse and retraumatization among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities throughout Arizona.

Resources

For Sexual Assault Survivors with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

For Domestic Violence Survivors with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

To request a specific training in this area, click here

Accessibility Statement

This accessibility statement applies to The Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence

The goal of this website is to guarantee the accessibility of its content and services for individuals with disabilities who require additional access support. Resources have been dedicated to enhancing the website’s user-friendliness and accessibility, driven by the aligned mission with Recite Me that every individual deserves to experience and engage with digital content, equally.

Measures to support accessibility

This website takes the following measures to ensure accessibility:

  • Include accessibility as part of our mission statement.
  • Include accessibility throughout our internal policies.
  • Integrate accessibility into our procurement practices.

Conformance status

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A, Level AA, and Level AAA. This website aims to conform with WCAG 2.1 level AA.

Accessibility Efforts & Disclaimer

We remain dedicated to the ongoing enhancement of the accessibility of its website and services. This commitment is rooted in the belief that ensuring a smooth, inclusive, and unrestricted experience for individuals with disabilities is a shared ethical responsibility.

We are always striving to enhance the accessibility of all pages and materials on our website, it’s possible that some content has not yet been fully aligned with accessibility standards. This could be attributed to the fact that we may not have identified the most suitable fix to improve a user’s experience.

Recite Me Assistive Technology 

We want as many people as possible to be able to use our website. To provide additional support to aid a more inclusive user experience we provide the Recite Me assistive technology tool. This Toolbar enables all website visitors to customize their experience through a range of options to suit their online accessibility and language needs.

The Recite Me toolbar provides text-to-speech functionality, fully customizable styling features, reading aids, and a translation tool with over 100 languages, including 65 text-to-speech voices and many other features.

This means that when the toolbar is activated by the user they can:

  • Listen to the website using text-to-speech functionality
  • Customize background, text, and accessibility tool colors
  • Modify the font, line height, or spacing of text
  • Zoom in up to 200% without text spilling off the screen
  • The text will reflow in a single column when you change the size of your browser window
  • Navigate the website using just a keyboard
  • Translate the website into a different language
  • Download mp3 files of web page text
  • View website pages in text-only mode

Reporting Accessibility Problems with this Website

We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of our website. If you encounter content that you cannot access, then please contact us on the details below and we will provide you with an accessible alternative.

Joshua Burleson / joshua@acesdv.org / 602-279-2900

Any feedback we receive we aim to get back to you within a suitable time. (if a response is requested).

If you are not happy with how we have responded to the issue you have raised with us about the accessibility of our website, then please contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS). The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for ensuring websites meet accessibility standards.

Third-party content and functionality

We may make use of third-party resources that embed content on our website. Wherever possible we will ensure these are conformant.

Technical Information About this Website’s Accessibility

Our organization is committed to making its website accessible to all visitors, in line with regional regulations and we aim for conformance with the WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1) at level AA.

Technical specifications

Accessibility of this website relies on the following technologies to work with the particular combination of web browsers and any assistive technologies or plugins installed on your computer:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

These technologies are relied upon for conformance with the accessibility guidelines used.

What we’re doing to improve accessibility

Our accessibility journey is continuing. We regularly review our website and its content to identify and fix known issues. We can do this by running a check of our website with the Recite Me Accessibility Checker.

This statement is reviewed at least once a year and updated.