Within Safe Place is another program, Personal Safety Awareness Center, an educational and intervention awareness service for people specifically with disabilities. The center has two domestic violence educators and Jeannette Bettes is one of them. Jeanette provides training to disability service providers, to the MHMR and TRC group homes and service centers. Her goal is to increase the awareness of abuse and violence against people with disabilities. She noted that part of their mission is education so they can stop the violence and abuse of people with disabilities.
Research shows that the disabled are abused and violated more often than the non-disabled.
Jeanette reported that abuse takes on many forms and is found in neglecting the disabled, as well as abusing the disabled financially. Her role is educating the public, and through this continued education, she feels that the cases of violence will be decreased. Jeannette reported on a book entitled Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities . The author of the book, Dick Sobsey, has done a great amount of research on the subject and she noted that this is excellent reading to gain additional information on the subject. Their goal is employment for the adult sector of the people that they serve.