Gifted Hands Gift Shop Program

"Empowering teenage girls is our business"

Our Mission:  To educate teenage girls about domestic violence prevention to help them live free of domestic violence, poverty and depression

• On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day.¹

• 92% of women say that reducing domestic violence and sexual assault should be at the top of any formal efforts taken on behalf of women today.²

• 1 out of 3 women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime.³

• 1 in 5 female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner. Abused girls are significantly more likely to get involved in other risky behaviors. They are 4 to 6 times more likely to get pregnant and 8 to 9 times more likely to have tried to commit suicide.³

• 1 in 3 teens report knowing a friend or peer who has been hit, punched, slapped, choked or physically hurt by his/her partner.⁴

• As many as 324,000 women each year experience intimate partner violence during their pregnancy. ⁵

• Violence against women costs companies $72.8 million annually due to lost productivity.⁶

• Ninety-four percent of the offenders in murder-suicides were male.⁷

• Seventy-four percent of all murder-suicides involved an intimate partner (spouse, common-law spouse, ex-spouse, or boyfriend/girlfriend). Of these, 96 percent were females killed by their intimate partners.⁷

• Most murder-suicides with three or more victims involved a “family annihilator” — a subcategory of intimate partner murder-suicide.Family annihilators are murderers who kill not only their wives/girlfriends and children, but often other family members as well,before killing themselves.⁷

• Seventy-five percent of murder-suicides occurred in the home.⁷

1. Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003.

2. Progress & Perils: New Agenda for Women, Center for the Advancement of Women. June 2003.

3. Silverman, Jay G., Raj, Anita, and Clements, Karen. “Dating Violence Against Adolescent Girls and Associated Substance Use, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy, and Suicidality.” Pediatrics, August 2004.

4. Teenage Research Unlimited. Findings from study commissioned by Liz Claiborne Inc. to investigate the level of and attitudes towards dating abuse among American teenagers aged 13 to 18 [online] 2005 Feb [cited 2006 Mar 20]. Available from: URL: www.loveisnotabuse.com/statistics_abuseandteens.htm5. Gazmararian JA, Petersen R, Spitz AM, Goodwin MM, Saltzman LE, Marks JS. “Violence and reproductive health; current knowledge and future research directions.” Maternal and Child Health Journal 2000; 4(2):79-84.

6. Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States. 2003. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Atlanta, GA/

7. Violence Policy Center (VPC), American Roulette: Murder-Suicide in the United States, April 2006.

    Gifted Hands Gift Shop Program 2009 Year-end Report

Domestic Violence Prevention Workshop Attendees                                      Dates                                         No. of Students

DeSoto High School                                                                     2/5                                  50

Cristo Rey High School                                                                2/9                                  10

Mother’s Refuge                                                                         2/21                                 8

Delta Gems                                                                                 3/7                                  21

DeLaSalle Education Center                                                        3/10                                22

DeLaSalle Education Center                                                        3/12                                15

Liberty Academy High School                                                      3/16                                20

Community Linc                                                                          4/18                                19

Grandview Middle School                                                             4/25                                25

Cristo Rey High School                                                                4/27                                5

Cristo Rey High School                                                                5/11                                30

Operation Breakthrough                                                               5/30                                12

Urban Youth Center                                                                     7/25                                7

Niles Home                                                                                  10/1                                5

Liberty Academy High School                                                       11/20                              25

Kansas City Girls’ Choir                                                                11/21                              25

Satchel Paige Middle School                                                          11/23                              22

Community-wide Workshop                                                           12/5                               28

Flora Friends                                                                                 12/12                              7

Self-empowerment through the Arts                            

Summer Program                                                                           8/8                                26

                                                                                                      8/22                              22

Total no. of girls served in 2009                                                                                      404

Presentations                                                                                 Dates                          Attendees

Cristo Rey High School Freshman Girls                                            2/23                              4

American Business Women’s Assoc.                                                3/24                              40

St. Monica’s Women’s Conference                                                 8/15                               25

Campbell Church Women’s Group                                                 9/3-9/10-19-17               7

Events                                                                                                                                   Dates                                      No. of Attendees/Participants

Create Your Own Reality in conjunction With MOCSA  (at Gifted Hands)              4/4                                           50           

 Women In Design Meeting (at GH)                                                                                4/8                                           15

 UMKC Communication’s Club Bake Sale to benefit Gifted Hands                            4/13                                         NA

 Belton School District volunteered at Gifted Hands for Day of Caring (at GH)      6/13                                         12

 Hoby Org. volunteers at Gifted Hands  (at GH)                                                            6/13                                         58

 Booth at Shook, Hardy & Bacon Health Fair                                                                 7/28                                         NA

 Setup GH table at Harvest Ball                                                                                         9/19                                         500

 Michelle Johnson (book author ) Pres.                                                                           10/9                                         15

 Create Your Own Reality                                                                                                   10/17                                       35

 InterPlay Group                                                                                                                  11/3                                         10                                

                         Kansas City Metro Statistics

The following domestic violence statistics were reported by the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCADSV) based on reports from 84 of its member programs from 2007:

Number of women sheltered                                         1,657        

Bednights of shelter                                                       41,286

Individuals turned away because of full shelters              1,689