TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND FROM: Vice Mayor Foley
CITY COUNCIL Councilmember Kamei
Councilmember Campos
Councilmember Cohen
Councilmember Ortiz
SUBJECT: SEE BELOW DATE: May 16, 2025
Approved Date: 5/16/2025
SUBJECT: Community-Led Solutions to Domestic Violence Report
RECOMMENDATION
1. Accept the Community-Led Solutions to Domestic Violence Report.
2. Direct the City Manager to continue working with community partners and the County to identify high-impact, community-supported opportunities to invest previously allocated funding to support intimate partner violence prevention and response.
3. Return to the City Council with an implementation plan and recommendations for high- impact use of these funds.
BACKGROUND
We acknowledge the work by the Battered Women’s Justice Project (BWJP), local partners Caminar and Maitri, and the City Manager’s Office to prepare this report. The effort to solicit input from over 100 survivors, service providers, and community leaders is inspiring, and we appreciate the City’s commitment to begin implementing the recommendations. We look forward to supporting this work across City departments, including SJPD, Housing, PRNS, Public Works, and the City Manager’s Office of Racial and Social Equity.
Opioid Settlement funds and other sources identified by City staff may help sustain this important work. We encourage our colleagues to direct the City Manager to deepen the City’s efforts, in collaboration with community partners and the County, to support violence prevention and response programs. This effort should be informed by the recommendations in the report, which already identifies grassroots approaches like the promotores model and culturally-specific outreach. Together, we can begin the difficult but essential work to reduce—and eliminate— domestic violence in our community.
COUNCIL AGENDA: 5/20/2025
FILE: 25-560
ITEM: 4.1
The signers of this memorandum have not had, and will not have, any private conversation with any other member of the City Council, or that member’s staff, concerning any action discussed in the memorandum, and that each signer’s staff members have not had, and have been instructed not to have, any such conversation with any other member of the City Council or that member's staff.