Initially considered a suicide, police turned their attention to the boyfriend. “He was becoming a huge problem. We had been trying to get her away from him,” her sister said.

Ashley Ann Crook, a domestic violence mentor at Oregon nonprofit ... a transitional women’s shelter in the heart of Oregon, about 25 miles north of Albany and Corvallis, the amount of time ...

Forcing survivors to litigate their restraining order hearings is a regular reality — and a gaping fault in a system that continues to fail battered women, advocates say.

To break free from the domestic abuse and to protect her children, Rachel experienced homelessness in hopes of something safer on the other side.

Faced with a homeless services system largely built for men, women experiencing domestic abuse may find themselves choosing between violence and the street.

Ashley Ann Crook, a domestic violence mentor at Oregon nonprofit ... a transitional women’s shelter in the heart of Oregon, about 25 miles north of Albany and Corvallis, the amount of time ...

Often, domestic violence and other types of violence ... The 150 surveys were conducted at women’s shelters in Salem, Oregon, about 25 miles north of Albany and Corvallis, as well as nine ...

To understand the impact of domestic violence on women’s housing stability, the Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team surveyed 150 women from July through October 2024 across eleven women’s daytime and overnight shelters throughout the Pacific Northwest.