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LaGrange – Oldham County Sheriff Steve Sparrow has applied for a federal grant to establish an Oldham County Domestic Violence Intervention and Advocacy Program (OCDVIAP). The $533,000 grant is a 100% federally funded grant to assist localities in the implementation of such programs. If the program application is accepted, the OCDVIAP will employ a director, receptionist and a deputy sheriff. It will contract with the local Center for Families and Women to provide counseling and other advocacy services. The grant will cover all costs including, employee salary and benefits, office equipment and office space and utilities. The program’s director and domestic violence advocates will possess a minimum of a bachelor’s degree as well as Kentucky Domestic Violence Association Certification. The deputy sheriff will be certified through the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and be trained in Domestic violence.
The Oldham County Domestic Violence Intervention and Advocacy Program would establish a domestic violence intake center to provide a streamlined 24 hour a day, 7 day a week capability to apply for emergency protection orders and the rapid service of those orders upon the domestic violence perpetrator. Liaison will be established with the courts and prosecutors handling domestic violence cases and their input will be sought in the development of policies and procedures in providing services to victims of domestic violence. The policies will be developed to ensure collaboration with other agencies providing assistance to victims of domestic violence and their children. Community education and assistance programs will be created that will provide the community with information regarding domestic and dating violence. A partnership will be sought with both public and private schools within the community to ensure that students are made aware of the hazards of domestic and dating violence. The program will cooperate with local and state law enforcement agencies in the development and implementation of policies discouraging dual arrests (arrest of both parties) in response to domestic incidents.
The overall strategy of Oldham County government is the reduction of assaults and fatalities associated with domestic violence. Domestic violence when allowed to go unreported and unchecked passes from generation to generation. Rapid and determined intervention by the criminal justice system sends a clear message to perpetrators of domestic violence that their actions will go neither undetected nor unpunished. A well-publicized and enforced domestic violence program empowers victims of domestic violence and provides them a mechanism to escape their abuse.
Participating agencies are the Oldham County Sheriffs’ Office, Oldham County Fiscal Court, the Oldham County Attorneys’ Office, the Commonwealth Attorneys’ Office of the 12th Judicial Circuit, and the Center for Women and Families. The deadline for submitting the grant was January 31st, 2002.