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...When that switchboard begins lightening up, we will need to be ready with shelters, safe houses and services. We will need well-trained police officers, health professionals, social workers, prosecutors and judges," Shalala said...
...Shalala made repeated references to Quincy, Massachusetts as the model for national reforms of domestic violence...
...Shalala said Quincy uses its court system "to protect women and to punish those who hurt them" and includes the use of mental health officials and the social service community in conjunction with the criminal justice system...
...implement the reforms in Quincy on a national level, Shalala said citizens andcommunities need to act on a larger scale. Shesaid that there needs to be cooperation not onlyamong the different support groups but alsobetween the legal, judicial and civil elements ofsociety...
...make sure that domestic violence doesn'tgo back into the closet--the way it was in thepast," added Shalala, who has been praised for heroutspokenness on the issue of domestic violence