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“Disasters can cause significant emotional trauma or stress, injure or kill individuals, and threaten basic human needs such as access to food, water and housing,” J. Brian Houston, associate professor of communication and director for the Disaster and Community Crisis Center (DCC) at MU. “We know from past research that disasters can increase the prevalence and severity of domestic violence; they have compounding effects on the recovery of women and families experiencing this violence.”
“To promote women’s safety and well-being, domestic violence services and resources should be integrated into disaster-related assistance and services,” Jennifer First said. “Emergency management often conceptualizes disasters in four phases– response, recovery, mitigation and preparedness. Our framework uses this perspective to identify objectives to use before, during and after a disaster to help victims of domestic violence.”