The document summarizes the goals and activities of the Capital Area Domestic & Sexual Violence Coordinating Council (CADSVCC). The CADSVCC aims to improve victim safety, perpetrator accountability, and direct services through several subcommittees, including the Healthcare Professionals Subcommittee. This subcommittee works to provide training to healthcare professionals on domestic and sexual violence and to improve services for victims through information sharing and collaborative programs. The CADSVCC was established in the 1990s and expanded its focus to include sexual assault in 2005. It coordinates the efforts of service providers, law enforcement, and legal professionals to address domestic and sexual violence in the local area.

1. CAPITAL AREA
DOMESTIC &
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
COORDINATING COUNCIL
Healthcare
Professionals
Subcommittee
To reduce violence in the Greater Capital Area
by promoting best practices and protocol
when serving victims of sexual assault and/
or domestic violence through community
education, public awareness and prevention.
RESOURCES FOR
HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS
M.C.L.A. 750.411 Injuries by means of deadly weapons; duty to
report; violation, misdemeanor; immunity.
Sec. 411. (1) A person, firm or corporation conducting a hospital or
pharmacy in this state, the person managing or in charge of a hospital or
pharmacy, or the person in charge of a ward or part of a hospital to which
one or more persons come or are brought suffering from a wound or other
injury inflicted by means of a knife, gun, pistol or other deadly weapon, or
by other means of violence, has a duty to report that fact immediately, both
by telephone and in writing, to the chief of police or other head of the po-
lice force of the village or city in which the hospital or pharmacy is located,
or to the county sheriff if the hospital or pharmacy is located outside the
incorporated limits of a village or city. The report shall state the name and
residence of the person, if known, his or her whereabouts, and the cause,
character and extent of the injuries and may state the identification of the
perpetrator, if known.
HEALTHCARE SUBCOMMITTEE
ADVISORY BOARD
Izabela Wackowski-Norris
EVE (End Violent Encounters)
(517) 372-3382 ext. 20
advocacy-cssupervisor@eveinc.org
CPT Gabriel Beelen
JFHQSARC
(517) 481-8114
gary.beelen@us.army.mil
Jillian Pastoor
EVE (End Violent Encounters)
(517) 372-5976 ext. 11
communityrelations@eveinc.org
EVE (End Violent Encounters)
(517) 372-5572 - www.eveinc.org
24 hour crisis line, shelter, advocacy, personal
protection order assistance, non residential services,
children’s programs, bilingual services, counseling,
support groups and prevention education.
MSU Sexual Assault Program
(517) 372-6666 - www.endrape.msu.edu
24 hour crisis hotline, medical advocacy, counseling,
legal advocacy and prevention education.
2-1-1 Call Center
www.211.org
Free and confidential information and referral. Call
2-1-1 for help with food, housing, health care,
counseling and more.
Our Mission:

2. GOALS OF THE
HEALTHCARE SUBCOMMITTEE
The Healthcare Professionals Subcommittee is open
to medical professionals, educators, domestic/sexual
violence service providers and those interested in
promoting best practices for victims of domestic
violence and sexual assault. Our vision to improve
services to victims of domestic violence and sexual
assault includes the following goals:
• Work toward the primary purpose of victim
safety and the secondary purpose of
assailant accountability.
• Provide health care professionals with
• domestic and sexual violence training,
awareness and education.
• Provide information, resources and
referrals to health care professionals.
• Develop collaborative programs to minimize
duplication of services and maximize
resources to improve service delivery.
CAPITAL AREA DOMESTIC &
SEXUAL VIOLENCE COORDINATING
COUNCIL (CADSVCC)
The Coordinating Council is a combined effort of several
subcommittees committed to improving victim safety,
perpetrator accountability and direct services. Currently
there are eight active CADSVCC subcommittees. Several
subcommittees are open to the public and offer unique
internship and volunteer opportunities.
• Capital Area Response Effort (CARE)
• Capital Area Sexual Assault Response Team (CASART)
• Court Watch
• Open Eyes of Faith
• Domestic Violence Response Team (DART)
• Health Care Professionals
• Service Providers
• Services, Training, Officers and Prosecutors (STOP)
HISTORY
In the 1980’s efforts were initiated by the local domestic violence shelter program and
law enforcement to meet regularly to improve public relations and service delivery
in our county. This Task Force met irregularly for a year or two, but never had strong
community involvement or active leadership. In 1994 new efforts were started,
leading to regular meetings of the Capital Area Family Violence Coordinating Council
(CAFVCC). The CAFVCC was created in the greater Lansing area by service providers
working with victims and/or perpetrators of domestic violence and those wishing
to work on collaborative projects or prevention initiatives to end violence. The local
domestic violence program, the Prosecutor’s Office, law enforcement and other profes-
sionals who worked with victims and/or perpetrators of relationship violence initiated
these efforts. The first co-chairs of the CAFVCC were the Ingham County Prosecutor,
Don Martin, and a staff person at the Council Against Domestic Assault (now known
as End Violent Encounters, Inc.). In 2005 the CAFVCC expanded to address issues
surrounding sexual assault. The CAFVCC changed its name in 2006 to the Capital Area
Domestic and Sexual Violence Coordinating Council (CADSVCC).
About Domestic Violence
and Sexual Assault
Domestic Violence means the occurrence of any
of the following acts by a person that is not an act
of self-defense: causing or attempting to cause
physical or mental harm to a family or household
member; placing a family or household member
in fear of physical or mental harm; causing or at-
tempting to cause a family or household member
to engage in involuntary sexual activity by force,
threat of force, or duress; and/or engaging in
activity toward a family or household member that
would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized,
frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or
molested.
-Definition provided by the Michigan Domestic Violence
Prevention & Treatment Board (MDVPTB)
Sexual Assault is the use of any kind of sexual
behavior as a weapon to harm an individual. Sexual
assault includes: street harassment, sexual harass-
ment, incest, stranger assault and acquaintance
rape. Some behaviors indicating sexual violence in-
cclude: the use of physical force; coercion or verbal
manipulation; verbal and/or visual harassment;
use of drugs or alcohol to facilitate an assault.
-Definition provided by the Michigan State University
Sexual Assault Program, www.endrape.msu.edu.