Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
February 12, 2020
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A message from Warm Springs VOCS
The office of Warm Springs Vic-
tims of Crime Services—VOCS—
wishes ever yone a safe and happy
Februar y.
VOCS would like to take this
time—as Februar y is Teen Dating
Violence Awareness Month—to
share these recent statistics:
Jayson Smith/Spilyay
Look for Lincoln’s Powwow results in the next Spilyay.
Community notes...
Pathways Home
The first of two classes for Path-
ways
Home:
A
Native
Homeownership Course will be on
Saturday, February 22. The classes
are at the Credit Enterprise con-
ference room starting at 9 a.m.
There will be four different mod-
ules during the first class:
You’ll learn about Financing,
Purchasing and Maintaining a
Home; Building versus Buying;
Mortgage Loans; and Budgeting,
while gaining hands-on practice.
This course is required for any-
one in the Community Action
Team’s Individual Development
Account (IDA) program for home
ownership. The second class will be
on February 29. To sign up call
541-553-3148.
Education program for youth
AmeriCorps at Heart of Oregon
Corps is now accepting applications
for the upcoming spring program,
starting on March 2. Applications
are due by February 25.
The AmeriCorps at Heart of
Oregon Corps program is for
three months, and is designed to
engage young adults ages 17-24.
Over recent, many young people
from Warm Springs have completed
the program, helping them gradu-
ate high school, move on to college,
or develop career skills.
Members learn leadership and
conservation skills through envi-
ronmental projects on public lands,
habitats and park infrastructure
throughout Central Oregon, in-
cluding on the reservation.
Members who complete the
three-month term earn $275 per
week living stipend, and an award
for college. To apply visit the
website:
Heartoforegoncorps.org
Of call 541-633-7834.
· About 1.5 million high school
boys and girls in the U.S. admit to
being intentionally hit or physically
harmed in the last year by some-
one they are romantically involved
with.
· Teens who suffer dating abuse
are subject to long-term conse-
quences like alcoholism, eating dis-
orders, promiscuity, thoughts of
suicide, and violent behavior.
· One in three young people will
be in an abusive or unhealthy re-
lationship. Thirty-three percent of
adolescents in America are victim
to sexual, physical, verbal, or emo-
tional dating abuse.
· In tour country 25-percent
of high school girls have been
abused physically or sexually. Teen
girls who are abused this way are
six times more likely to become
pregnant or contract a sexually
transmitted infection (STI).
· Females between the ages of
16 and 24 are roughly three times
more likely than the rest of the
population to be abused by an in-
timate partner.
· Eight states in the U.S. do
not consider a violent dating rela-
tionship domestic abuse. There-
fore, adolescents, teens, and 20-
somethings are unable to apply for
a restraining order for protection
from the abuser.
· Violent behavior often begins
between sixth and twelfth grades.
Seventy-two percent of 13 and 14-
year-olds are ‘dating.’
· Fifty-percent of young people
who experience rape or physical or
sexual abuse will attempt to com-
mit suicide.
If you or anyone you know is ex-
periencing teen dating violence,
please contact the Warm Springs Po-
lice Department, or Warm Springs
Victims of Crime, phone 541-553-
2293. Or come to our office located
at 1108 Wasco Street.
Michele Gonzales, Advocate,
Warm Springs Victims of Crime
Services.