We are deeply saddened to report that on Tuesday, November 3 Ethelyn Vender of Bristol Township was shot and killed by her husbad Russell before he turned the gun on himself. This is only seven months after Solebury resident Jerry Rudman was shot and killed by his longtime partner Joseph Lofft, who then shot himself.
To read the full article from the November 6 edition of The Intelligencer, click here.
Woman recalls the day she turned around another's life
The story of Denise Yun, a Bucks County resident, helping a total stranger 20 years ago and using A Woman's Place as a resource was featured in the "Glad-Tidings Story Contest" in The Intelligencer on December 21, 2008. Click the link below to read the article.
In March, the Bucks County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Commission released their Final Report and Recommendations. The commission's mission is to prevent deaths from intimate relationship violence by utilizing a systematic confidential, multi-agency review process to identify system gaps in order to expand effective violence prevention coordination strategies. A Woman's Place is a member organization of the commission and participated in the press conference announcing the release of the report. Click on the link below to access an article about the commission and the release of the report.
A Woman's Place wrote a guest commentary for the February 2008 issue of Clinical Advisor, a monthly journal for nurse practitioners and physician assistants in primary care. Its mission is to keep practitioners up to date with the latest information about diagnosing, treating, managing, and preventing conditions seen in a typical office-based primary-care setting. Click the link below to download AWP's commentary, Helping stop domestic violence.
