As Iowa domestic violence homicides reaches the largest numbers observed by the state in three years, Iowa City’s Domestic Violence Intervention Program is continuing its services just over a year after the Rape Violence Advocacy Program and DVIP merged in September 2024.
According to a 2025 report by the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence, from 2022 to 2024, there was a 52 percent increase in domestic violence homicides in Iowa.
DVIP is now managing new grant funding and an increasing number of survivors that are being housed at an emergency shelter in Iowa City, which opened last year. The shelter can house 65 to 70 beds, allowing DVIP to turn away less people. Many of these survivors are seeking services from the eight counties the nonprofit serves, including Johnson County, Lee County, and Cedar County…