This act helped to give money to not only build programs, but it also supported the programs that already existed. This also includes any hotlines that were created to help victims of domestic violence as well (Womens Health, 2015). The value or ideology that helps to support this program is Judeo-Christian Charity. This value stresses the importance of helping those in need, and that is exactly what this program does. This program helps to give funding to programs and hotlines to victims that are strictly affected by domestic violence. Moving forward to present day, these policies have had a level of success with helping the issue of domestic violence. They have vastly improved the services for victims of sexual and domestic violence. Not only that, but these policies also have taken into account issues of sexual assault, battered immigrants, and stalking (Legal Momentum, 2015). These policies do and do not adequately address the issue through programs. The current policies do address the problem in terms of helping victims get back onto their feet and help in creating programs to spread awareness and how to prevent domestic …show more content…
The things that are being done are things such as hotlines to help individuals call and report abuse when they do not feel safe in doing so. Programs are being created to help advocate for change and support. The larger groups like the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence advocates for change in terms of the definition of domestic violence to include sexual assault and stalking. On top of that, they advocate that people reach out to their member of congress to ask for early programs to help the younger youths identify violent situations and to speak out against it. The “Its On Us” campaign was created for people to take a pledge and speak out against sexual assault and to know recognize cases of it. The priorities that should be pursued is that if a case is suspected to be one of domestic violence, that it should be considered a serious offense and not just assault. This would include making harsher laws to help deter the violent behavior. The actions that social workers should take is to advocate to Congress that domestic violence is a serious issue and that the definition should expand to things that occur under domestic violence such as stalking and sexual assault. Lastly, what social workers need to continue to do is ask for harsher laws to deter violent behavior and advocate that programs reach out to younger youth so that they can stop and call out any type of violence enacted in