BATON ROUGE – The Governor’s Office of Women’s Policy launched a new program on Monday that it said will provide safe and reliable transportation for domestic violence survivors.
The Safe Wheels Alliance program will offer a way for victims to get to the IRIS Domestic Violence Center. Baton Rouge Community College students and instructors will fix and maintain the program’s vehicles.
Dependable transportation is one of the biggest challenges survivors have when leaving abusive situations, according to Director of the Governor’s Office of Women’s Policy, Laurie Marien…