Workplace Costs for Domestic Violence - Developed by Texas Health Resources
		Total workforce in persons
		(%) Percentage female
	\|	Total estimate female employees
	\|	Number of female employees divided by 1000
	\|	DV rate per 1,000 Female Employees
	\|	Expected number of female DV victims at your company per year
	\|	Total expected victimizations at your company per year	\|	Avg. number victimizations per DV victim per year
	\|	Predicted number of your company's DV victims seeking medical care per year	\|	Avg. percentage of victims seeking medical care nationally
	\|	Predicted total number of medical visits by DV victims for your company	\|	Avg. number of medical visits per victimization
	\|	Total predicted medical costs per victimization for your company	\|	Avg. medical cost per victimization(adjusted to 2003 prices)
			\|	Avg. US percentage paid by insurance
	\|	Estimated number of your company's victims seeking MH services	\|	Avg. percentage of victims seeking mental health services
	\|	Total predicted mental health visits	\|	Avg. number of visits per victim
	\|	Total predicted mental health costs per victimization for your company	\|	Avg. cost per visit (adjusted to 2003 dollars)
	\|		\|	Avg. US percentage paid by insurance
	\|	Total estimated lost work days due to DV for your company	\|	Avg. number of lost work days per year per DV victim
	\|	($) Avg. hourly wage for your company
	\|	Total estimated productivity lost in your company per year due to DV

	\|	Total annual costs to your company due to DV

Data Sources: Costs of Intimate Partner Violence against Women in the United States; National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003 Understanding Violence Against Women;Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Academy Press 1996 Straus, Murray A. and Richard J. Gelles; Physical Violence in American Families: Risk Factors and Adaptations to Violence in 8,145 Families; 1989; Transaction Publishers Notes: 1. For these calculations, domestic violence refers only to rape or physical assault by an intimate partner. It does not include verbal, mental or emotional abuse. Accordingly, the estimates of incidence, medical costs and lost productivity underestimate the actual incidence and costs. 2. Average medical & mental health costs are 1995 dollars adjusted to 2003 dollars using the All-Item CPI. Percentages of costs paid by insurance are 1995 values 3. Total workforce includes only benefit eligible individuals

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Resources

In a 2005 survey of employees nationwide by the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV), 40% of respondents indicated that payroll stuffers to raise awareness and promote access would have been a valued service.

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Online Resources

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management
http://www.opm.gov/

The National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence
www.workplaceviolence911.com

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (A project of the Family Violence Prevention Fund)
www.endabuse.org/programs/workplace/

Safe at Work Coalition
www.safeatworkcoalition.org

Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence
www.caepv.org/

The Domestic Violence Model Workplace Policy Initiative
New York Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence
www.opdv.state.ny.us/workplace

Internet Security for Victims of Domestic Violence
Womenslaw.org
www.womenslaw.org/internet.htm

Women’s Advocacy Project
http://www.women-law.org/

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
www.nrcdv.org/

Liz Claiborne, Inc.
www.loveisnotabuse.com

Texas Council on Family Violence
www.tcfv.org

Public Awareness in Texas
www.makethecall.org

Men’s Nonviolence Project
www.mensnonviolence.org

The National Domestic Violence Hotline
www.ndvh.org

Workplace Costs for Domestic Violence - Developed by Texas Health Resources

Texas Business Alliance to End Domestic Violence

Resources

Online Resources