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New task force focuses on ending domestic violence
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Winn Army Community Hospital nurse Allena Douglas and Annette and Ron Benneche, owners of S.E.R.V.E. LLC, a professional counseling service in Hinesville, have formed the Liberty County Family Violence Intervention Task Force to fill a need in the community. - photo by Phgoto by Patty Leon
A new task force focused on eliminating family violence is in the fledging stages of development in Liberty County.Annette and Ron Benneche and Allena Douglas hope the newly formed Liberty County Family Violence Intervention Task Force will fill a need in the community.According to the Georgia Commission on Family Violence’s website, the General Assembly created the commission to develop a comprehensive state plan for ending family violence in Georgia. In the past Liberty County had a task force but that group has been inactive for the last 10 years.According to the most recent list of available task forces dated March 26, the list of task forces in the state shows that the Atlantic Judicial Circuit, which serves Liberty, Long, Bryan, Tattnall, Evans and McIntosh counties, was inactive.“What we think happened in this area — because this is such a transient area, where military people are here for a short period of time — I think there was a task force way back … and they were active and had resources and services,” Annette Benneche said. “But I guess throughout the years, the people who provided those services moved out. … It kind of fell on the wayside.”
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