Photo By Staff Sgt. LaShic Patterson | Tyrone D. McDuffie Jr. stands for a photo at the Army Community Service after the...... read more read more
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FORT BLISS, Texas – Almost 500 Soldiers gathered together at the Ronald D. Milam Physical Fitness Center Sept. 29 for a domestic violence and child abuse awareness training.
October serves as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Tyrone D. McDuffie Jr., a Family Advocacy Program specialist with Army Community Service, led the instruction, providing Soldiers with important regulations, definitions, reporting options, advocacy measures, and resources on how to combat domestic violence and child abuse.
According to Army regulation, domestic violence is considered an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Under 1st Armored Division’s Operation Ironclad, Fort Bliss seeks to eliminate harmful behaviors such as suicide, sexual assault and harassment, racism, and extremism, which includes domestic violence prevention.
McDuffie hopes that Soldiers take charge and implement parts from the domestic violence presentation within their lives and units for other service members. He detailed the objective and goals of the training.
“The objective of this training is to promote awareness, to educate people on exactly what domestic violence is, and all of the different components of domestic violence that sometimes Soldiers and people in general don’t understand,” said McDuffie. “The [first] goal is to bring awareness, and the second part is to educate them, then teach them how to advocate for others [and] advocate for themselves.”
McDuffie elaborated that the other components from his presentation included child abuse and suicide awareness. The Army defines child abuse as the physical or mental injury, sexual abuse, exploitation, or neglectful treatment of a child.
“Our goal with child abuse is awareness, education, and to eradicate child abuse,” said McDuffie. “We want to make them aware of some of the warning signs to look for in themselves and in others, so they don’t have those suicidal ideations.”
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, about one in five women and one in seven men in the United States have experienced physical violence from an intimate partner over the course of their lifetime. Over 43 million women and 38 million men have experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner based on the same report.
| Date Taken: | 10.06.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 10.18.2022 16:25 |
| Story ID: | 430882 |
| Location: | FORT BLISS, TEXAS, US |
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