Beauchamp's ex-husband has been married seven times in 20 years. The Beauchamps will celebrate their 20th anniversary in August. You have to risk something to get involved. Valley Crisis Center housed 141 families in the shelter and provided services to 620 nonresident clients from January through May this year. Twenty-two families have been turned away so far in 1998 because there simply wasn't room in the shelter, Beauchamp said.
Funding is in place to start construction on a new women's shelter.
Beauchamp is looking for about 1 acre within the Nampa city limits, preferably near Mercy Medical Center, for a new 48-bed center. Factors that aggravate the mammoth domestic violence problem in Canyon County are poverty and alcohol and drug abuse, Beauchamp said. A battering incident that takes place after alcohol is used may be more dangerous and result in greater injury, Beauchamp said. Although many batterers may use alcohol as an excuse for their behavior, alcohol does not cause domestic violence, Morisette said. A batterer may hit his partner only when he is drinking, but he probably verbally abuses her when he isn't drinking, Morisette said.