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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION 751
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Research indicates that one in three women in the
| 3 | | United States experience domestic violence; that means
| 4 | | approximately 1.67 million women in Illinois experiences
| 5 | | domestic violence at least once; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, During the State of Illinois 2017 fiscal year, 50
| 7 | | agencies funded by the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic
| 8 | | Violence reported that services were provided to 41,243 adults
| 9 | | who were accompanied by 8,000 children; a total of 61% of those
| 10 | | adults seeking services had between one and three accompanying
| 11 | | children; 3,122 children were provided overnight shelter; of
| 12 | | the children served, 71% were younger than 10 years of age;
| 13 | | another 3,670 children were denied shelter along with their
| 14 | | accompanying adult because of lack of beds; the 41,243 adults
| 15 | | received 358,774 hours of service in counseling, advocacy,
| 16 | | support in the courts, and economic self-sufficiency support;
| 17 | | and | 18 | | WHEREAS, A study of low-income preschoolers finds that
| 19 | | children who have been exposed to family violence suffer
| 20 | | symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as
| 21 | | bed-wetting or nightmares, and are at greater risk than their
| 22 | | peers of having allergies, asthma, gastrointestinal problems,
| 23 | | headaches, and flu; children of mothers who experience prenatal
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| 1 | | physical domestic violence are at an increased risk of
| 2 | | exhibiting aggressive, anxious, depressed, and hyperactive
| 3 | | behavior; females who are exposed to their parents' domestic
| 4 | | violence as adolescents are significantly more likely to become
| 5 | | victims of dating violence than daughters of nonviolent
| 6 | | parents; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Children who experience childhood trauma,
| 8 | | including witnessing incidents of domestic violence, are at a | 9 | | greater risk of having serious adult health problems including
| 10 | | tobacco use, substance abuse, obesity, cancer, heart disease,
| 11 | | and depression; they also have a higher risk of having an
| 12 | | unintended pregnancy; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Physical abuse during childhood increases the
| 14 | | risk of future victimization among women and the risk of future
| 15 | | perpetration of abuse by men more than two-fold; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, According to the Centers for Disease Control and | 17 | | Prevention: "in the United States, one in five women have | 18 | | experienced completed or attempted rape"; approximately one in | 19 | | 15 men have experienced rape, and "most victims first | 20 | | experienced sexual violence before age 25"; that means more | 21 | | than one million women and more than 400,000 men in Illinois | 22 | | experience sexual violence in their lifetime; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The FBI Crime Clock statistics in 2016 reported | 2 | | that a rape occurs every four minutes in
the United States; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault | 4 | | consists of 30 rape crisis centers; during
the State of | 5 | | Illinois 2017 fiscal year, the Illinois rape crisis centers | 6 | | served 19,077 survivors of
sexual assault, and provided 95,038 | 7 | | hours of service to survivors, including 57,056 hours of
| 8 | | counseling, 13,173 hours of criminal justice advocacy and 8,028 | 9 | | hours of medical advocacy; the
centers also provided 22,427 | 10 | | hours of prevention education to 581,350 participants; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The CDC has declared: "Sexual violence is a very | 12 | | serious public health problem that
affects millions of women | 13 | | and men"; the National Violence Against Women Prevention
| 14 | | Research Center (NVAWPRC) reports that 31% of rape victims | 15 | | develop PTSD; NVAWPRC
also found that rape victims are 4.1 | 16 | | times more likely than non-crime victims to have
contemplated | 17 | | suicide and 13 times more likely to attempt suicide; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, Victims of sexual assault are three times more | 19 | | likely than non-victims to experience a
major depressive | 20 | | episode in their lives, and depression is a frequent symptom in | 21 | | survivors of
childhood sexual abuse; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, Research also shows that child sexual assault |
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| 1 | | survivors are more likely to have pelvic
pain and pelvic | 2 | | inflammatory disorder, breast diseases, yeast infections, | 3 | | bladder infections,
complications of pregnancy and chronic | 4 | | pain, including backaches and headaches; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, Domestic violence has become a national emergency
| 6 | | and state agencies are overwhelmed simply trying to respond to
| 7 | | what is happening, which leaves almost no resources or time to
| 8 | | work toward prevention; therefore, be it | 9 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
| 10 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
| 11 | | declare domestic violence and sexual assault a public health | 12 | | priority for the
State of Illinois and we urge the State to | 13 | | make available all
necessary resources to combat this epidemic; | 14 | | and be it further | 15 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
| 16 | | delivered to Governor Rauner and all members of the General
| 17 | | Assembly.
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