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I • ■ .' ■- ^ 1:- '"V. : •Len Harrell/Brad Roylound Police DepartmentMound, MN 55364Dan Heaaburtf Minnetrista, MN 55364 Jay Petersen Mound, MN 55364 Rosemarie Snyder Mound, MN 55364. Connie Stahlbusch Mound, MN 55364 Rev. Michael Tegeder |- Mound, MN 55364 ,te^lBarb Thonford if Mound, MN 55364 m.-Joan Underwood Spring Park, MN 55384 ;,L:this request for CDBG Block Grant of $ 1 ,000.00 is made so that Westonka Intervention can continue serving the Westonka area. PROBLEM STATEMENT l^iolence is a fact of life in Minnesota and violent crimes are on qoikmunity is exempt from violent crimes, but behavior. ” Due to the demographics of the area, surrounded bylif-m. I^'bhe increase. The State Department of Corrections estimates that 65,000 domestic assaults occur in Minnesota annually.No pysventicn/intervention programs that exist within a community l^l^yiolence , April 1890, **appears to be ideal venues for responding according to the League of Women Voter’s Study on Domestic .VS to individuals who have been violent or at risk for violent liakes, the area is not easily accessible. This makes it ^; difficult for county funded programs to service the area. Child ^protection workers, and the two closest shelters were not #4 adequately servicing the area because of the long distance to travel. In fact, the West Hennepin Human Services Planning Board found that the area is in dire need of social services including the area of domestic violence. Westonka Intervention, a local community based program, was created as a response to this need. m * 'PROGRAM OBJECTIVE V The objectives of the program are to increase the communities’ ;dwareness of the problems of domestic violence, to provide ffyictims with access to support, and decrease numbers of repeated domestic violence. ■‘rA - # e . i3