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Originally Posted by IslandScout

Absolutely. Sylvie, the cops should have pointed you toward crisis counseling when you gave your report. I'm sure there's something in your town...often those services generate from a women's center (just as LGBT services start at a women's center, before they get their own).

(And tangentally, I might say, why is that so? Why do women's organizations give up their meager funding to take care of the world? Because we're trained to do so... let the Elks fund it out of their pocket for a change! Okay, my rant is over.)

Having worked a bit in the system, I think this might partly be because a lot of the same folks work (or volunteer) in places that have overlapping populations. So, folks who work or volunteer at the Food Bank also may work or volunteer at the Rape Crisis Center, etc., and they tend to advocate for the clients across agencies.