The results of the 2011 Victimization Survey for the Bristol Bay region will be introduced at a press conference on Wednesday, October 12, at 12:00 noon in Dillingham. This survey was conducted in the Bristol Bay region through a contract with the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (CDVSA). A brief overview of the survey will be followed by a presentation of the data and a discussion of the results.This victimization survey was conducted in the Dillingham Census Area, the Lake and Peninsula Borough, and the Bristol Bay Borough from April 2011 to June 2011. The survey was designed to measure the lifetime and past year exposure to sexual violence and intimate partner violence.
This press conference is held jointly by Safe & Fear-Free Environment, Inc. (SAFE), the Bristol Bay Native Association, the Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, and the UAA Justice Center.
More Information:
For more background on this project, visit http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/avs.
For more information about CDVSA, visit http://www.dps.state.ak.us/CDVSA/.
For more information about SAFE, visit http://www.besafeandfree.org/
