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The member projects provide the following services:
- 24-Hour Hotline: Each domestic violence project
encourages people dealing with abuse, community members trying to
help someone, or social service providers to use the hotline covered
by staff and trained volunteers. People can receive help safety planning,
information about options, crisis counseling, emotional support and
advocacy.
- Temporary Emergency Shelter and Transitional Housing: The
availability of shelters, safe homes, and transitional housing
units is critical to the safety of those who might otherwise remain
in or return to abusive situations due to lack of economic and housing
alternatives.
- Referrals and Information: Refferals and Information about community resources are avialable to meet the special needs of individuals..
- Court Advocacy: Advocates
help with Protection from Abuse Orders and Parental Rights and
Responsibilities and Pro Se Divorce forms. Other services are
available contact your local project
- Support Groups: Survivors
share their problems, offer encouragement in making difficult life
choices, and provide support toward personal growth. These groups
offer safety planning information, encouragement, hope and strength.
- Batterer’s
Education Groups: Forty-eight week behavioral change educational programs certified and monitored by the Department of Corrections to help batterers examine controlling behaviors and their belief systems, which batterers use to give themselves permission to abuse. The goal of Batterers' Intervention Programs is to work toward the safety of victims and hold batterers accountable for their actions.
- Outreach and Community Education: Community Education strategies influence community norms as well as increase public awareness about specific issues and problems related to domestic abuse, attract community support for other program efforts, reinforce the necessity for healthy relationships, and keep the public informed about program progress. Training is available
for law enforcement agencies, schools, social service providers,
faith communities, judicial system personnel, medical professionals,
businesses, and state and local entities
- School Based Education: Each project has designed their program to educate and inform youth and adults about the issue of Teen Dating Abuse as well as what is healthy and unhealthy behavior in relationships.
- Specialized
Children's Programming: Contact your local project to find out what
specialized programs
they offer for children exposed to domestic violence.
- Public Policy: MCEDV advocates on behalf of battered
women through policy development and legislative initiatives that
support battered women and hold batterers accountable.
Most services are free of charge. All projects offer additional
services. Call your local domestic violence project for
information.
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