Whereas an estimated 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men experience domestic violence during their lifetimes; Whereas domestic violence shelters and programs provide trauma-informed services that protect survivors’ privacy and confidentiality; Whereas the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA), which celebrates its 35th anniversary this October, empowers shelters and services to operate and creates a pathway for healing for individuals, families, and youth whose lives have been impacted by violence, trauma, and abuse; Whereas millions of people are victimized by intimate partners through verbal assault, threats of physical violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, economic abuse, technological abuse, sexual coercion, and sexual abuse; Whereas domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness for women and women with children; Whereas domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime in the United States; Whereas over 43,000,000 women across the United States reported experiencing psychological aggression, contact sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime, according to a 2015 national survey; Whereas most abusers who stalk their victims escalate their conduct to commit more violent crimes; Whereas intimate partner homicides have increased in recent years; Whereas, in an average month between 2013 and 2017, at least 52 American women were shot and killed by an intimate partner, and many more injured; Whereas nearly 1,000,000 American women alive today have reported being shot or shot at by an intimate partner; Whereas the majority of women who were victims of some kind of domestic violence first experienced this violence by their partner before age 25, and 1 in 4 female victims first experienced intimate partner violence prior to age 18; Whereas 1 in 15 children is exposed to intimate partner violence each year, and 90 percent of these children are eyewitnesses to this violence