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Verizon Wireless supports the domestic violence prevention and awareness efforts of law enforcement and government agencies in communities nationwide through donations of wireless phones, prepaid airtime and BroadbandAccess (high-speed Internet) service and funding.

Safety & Prevention

HopeLine has donated BroadbandAccess service to government employees involved in investigating incidents of domestic violence to improve their effectiveness in the field, and given phones programmed to dial 9-1-1 to the local police department or community criminal watch groups to make it easier for victims to make calls in emergency situations. HopeLine also supports counseling programs and other initiatives designed to bring attention to the issue of domestic violence, its causes and prevention.

HopeLine Law Enforcement Partnership Award

Family Justice Center.  Pictured are Alice Brennan (left), Verizon Wireless, Mary Claire Landry (middle), New Orleans Family Justice Center and Chief John Bryson of the New Orleans Police Department. 

Additional Program Activities

• In Tennessee, Verizon Wireless donated $5,000 to a domestic violence community program introduced by District Attorney General Bill Gibbons. The program puts beauty salon owners and managers through a training program to learn how to spot signs of domestic abuse and encourage victims to get help from local support services.
• In Indiana, Verizon Wireless joined Attorney General Steve Carter and Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) in raising awareness of domestic violence on college campuses through the distribution of partner abuse awareness posters on campus and to community organizations for display in high-traffic locations and counseling centers.
• In San Antonio, Verizon Wireless teamed up with Family Violence Prevention Services (FVPS) for a HopeLine phone drive that yielded 325 donated wireless phones, resulting in a $3,250 donation to the FVPS Battered Women’s Shelter Children’s Program.
• In Los Angeles, the City Attorney's Office received BroadbandAccess data cards, along with two years of free service, so its child abuse prosecutors can be more efficient and productive in the field.
• In New York, Verizon Wireless donated 25 wireless phones to the Manhattan District Attorney's Witness Aid Services Unit and pledged $100,000 in HopeLine funds to support the operations of the New York City President's Family Justice Center, which gives domestic violence victims access to services.
• In Pennsylvania, Verizon Wireless supported a program in Allegheny County that helps domestic violence victims more easily obtain Protection From Abuse (PFA) orders.
• In Virginia, Verizon Wireless partnered with the Attorney General's office to sponsor an ongoing recycling drive that resulted in more than 1,200 no-longer-used phones being collected.
• In Massachusetts, Verizon Wireless donated 30 wireless phones to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office; and the Boston Police Department's Property Management Unit has donated all lost or stolen wireless phones collected - an estimated 500 to date - to HopeLine.
• In Utah, the state attorney general worked with Verizon Wireless to raise awareness of domestic violence issues and called on Utah businesses to collect used wireless phones for HopeLine.