{"id":13020,"date":"2025-10-20T23:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:48:06","slug":"lubbock-advocates-working-to-end-domestic-violence-during-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock advocates working to end domestic violence during awareness month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, shining a light on survivors who are still living in fear and the people working to help them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Women\u2019s Protective Services of Lubbock serves 12 counties across the South Plains, offering 24-hour support, counseling, and shelter for men, women, and children escaping abuse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOnce they come through the doors and we get them settled in, then we have different programs in place, they\u2019re going to support and empower them to become healthy, self-sufficient individuals,\u201d Steven Garcia, Coordinator of Community Education, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/tcfv.org\/publications\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tcfv.org\/publications\/\">Texas Council on Family Violence<\/a>, 161 Texans were killed by intimate partners in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Advocates said it\u2019s a reminder that speaking up and reaching out, can save a life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">For help, call the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpslubbock.org\/get-help\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpslubbock.org\/get-help\/\"> Women\u2019s Protective Services <\/a>24-hour crisis hotline at 806-747-6491.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, shining a light on survivors who are still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4121,10866,9189,4122,319,66,168,170,169,3664,223,6878],"class_list":{"0":"post-13020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-awareness","9":"tag-domestic","10":"tag-domestic-violence","11":"tag-imani-jackson","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-lubbock","15":"tag-lubbock-headlines","16":"tag-lubbock-news","17":"tag-month","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-violence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}