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Temporary LockDown
Chicago, IL
Building on the success of Storycatcher Theatre's program for incarcerated girls, the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice requested a new gender-specific program to serve boys at the Illinois Youth Center in Chicago. This juvenile prison is the last stop before the boys return home and a critical juncture in preparing to make positive life choices. Through creating original musical theatre productions, Temporary LockDown helps incarcerated adolescents understand and reduce violent behaviors. The theatre project increases self-esteem; develops communications, conflict resolution and leadership skills; and serves as a gateway to therapy.
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Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools
Brooklyn, NY
The Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools is a partnership of youth, parents, school staff and community-based organizations working to end gender-based violence and sexual harassment in New York City public schools. Project objectives include developing youth leadership and empowering young women and men to recognize sexual assault and advocate for themselves in reporting harassment. In addition to increasing uniform enforcement of existing sexual harassment policies, project leaders will advocate for more comprehensive policies-working together with Title IX to eliminate sexual harassment in school environments. This project meets the criteria of the Local Funding Partnerships special solicitation to under-represented communities of diversity: nominated by the New York Women's Foundation, granted to the Girls for Gender Equity organization, to implement the Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools.
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Immigrants Seeking Safety
Raleigh, NC
A new influx of Latino and South Asian immigrants to North Carolina and a high incidence of intimate partner violence prompted nine organizations to collaborate in creating a comprehensive, culturally appropriate crisis intervention model. They will provide culturally specific intake, assessments, safety planning, crisis counseling, case management and educational opportunities for mothers and children. Several organizations are co-located in a new building with the area's key violence intervention and prevention agency including health services, legal aid, the police department domestic violence unit, child abuse prevention and KIRAN, a group serving the South Asian community.
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Common Justice
New York, NY
Common Justice introduces a new approach to violent crime: working closely with those harmed by crime to support their recovery, connecting under-served young men of color and other crime victims to health and social services, preventing further violence, and enhancing all parties' experience of justice. The Brooklyn district attorney, judges and public defenders refer young adults into this program as an alternative to incarceration. The project engages 16-24-year-olds responsible for serious, violent crimes-together with those they have harmed-and convenes a facilitated dialogue to determine appropriate sanctions in place of a prison sentence.
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Breaking the Cycle
Boston, MA
Breaking the Cycle is an intensive intervention for gunshot and stabbing victims at Boston Medical Center, which treats two-third of victims citywide. By intervening within 48 hours of emergency room admission, the program seeks to lower rates of re-injury and retaliation for gang-related assaults. This project creates four Violence Intervention Advocate (VIA) positions-two employed by the hospital as accepted members of the ER and two who work at the full-service social services agency directly across the street. With this strong hospital/community team, clients will receive ongoing case management including health care, job training and employment.
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Project Against Sexual Assault of Indigenous Farmworkers
Portland, OR
Indigenous farmworkers from Central America and Mexico speak their own languages (i.e. Mixteco, Trique or Zapotec) and are especially vulnerable to sexual abuse from ''bosses'' who control workers' jobs and living conditions. Barriers of language, culture and economic necessity often keep victims silent. Farmworkers, their union, health care providers and the justice system are partnering to prevent sexual harassment, mediate the health and psychosocial effects of abuse and bring perpetrators to justice. Interventions include home visits and radio socio-dramas to teach women about their rights and native speakers to translate at a local clinic.
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Hope for Children: Overcoming the Devastating Effects of Witnessing Family Violence
Raleigh, NC
A strong coalition of community agencies in Raleigh, NC provides specific counseling programs for adult victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse. However, after initial crisis intervention, no mental health programs offer ongoing services to children who have witnessed family violence. To minimize the long-term psychological, social, developmental and emotional effects of exposure to violence the local agencies have now created a continuum of age-appropriate services. Case managers will conduct thorough assessments and referrals to programs such as adolescent treatment groups and will facilitate additional outreach to Spanish-speaking children. Another tailored program offers therapeutic visitations to help children spend appropriate time with a parent who is separated by court-issued restraining orders.
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Caught in the Crossfire, Los Angeles
Oakland, CA
This peer intervention program aims to reduce the rate of traumatic injury and homicide that results from cycles of retaliation in neighborhoods known for gang activity and a high rate of violent crime among adolescents. Within 24 hours of hospitalization, violently injured youth and their families are visited by young adults who have themselves sustained violent injuries. This Youth ALIVE! project proved successful in Oakland, CA and now will be replicated in a low-income area of south Los Angeles. Youth who accept the program receive ongoing intensive services for one year including counseling and assistance with job training and placement, court hearings, school and housing.
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BRIDGE/S.P.A.N. - Safe Patient Advocacy Network
Lee Summit, MO
The project seeks to create a medical safety-net in area hospitals and clinics to address domestic violence. Presented by a coalition of six domestic violence agencies working together across two states and seven counties; the network provides domestic violence education to hospital and clinic staff, introduces universal screening for all female patients over fourteen and males with indicators, and provides twenty-four hour on-site advocacy to patients. Currently serving 24 hospitals and clinics, BRIDGE/S.P.A.N. strives to provide consistent high quality services to victims of domestic violence no matter where they access medical care in the metropolitan Kansas City community.
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Children's Advocacy Project
Casper, WY
The Children's Advocacy Project provides centralized, compassionate services to child victims of severe physical and sexual abuse. The project provides professional training and support that promotes coordinated investigation, treatment and prosecution.
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Streetworker Program
Lowell, MA
Utilizing the popular meeting ground of basketball and volleyball courts, street outreach workers will connect with at-risk Cambodian, Latino and other gang-involved youth to promote healthier lifestyle choices, increase utilization of health insurance and health care services, and reduce violence. Lowell, MA is home to the second largest Cambodian population in the U.S. This community suffers from poverty, post-war stress and intergenerational conflicts evidenced in high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy and gang membership. The teen center will expand its Streetworker program, building on its successful record of gang mediation.
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Children Who Witness Violence Program
Akron, OH
Program will provide early intervention to children who witness repetitive violence and instability in the home. The trauma of witnessing violence places children at high risk of depression, anxiety, and anger. The proposed intervention begins with police while investigating a domestic violence incident, and call-in referral of child witnesses to a 24 hour line. A team of two home visitors will respond within 30 minutes on site to focus on resolution of the crisis. Follow-up for the family and child will be provided. Subsequent home based interventions will assess needs and transition the family/child(ren) to ongoing trauma support services.
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The Healing Arts
San Antonio, TX
This project uses the visual, performing and literary arts in conjunction with other services to promote healing and prevent subsequent unhealthy behavior among children and youth who have suffered emotional and physical trauma. Professional artists work closely with small groups engaged in drama, pottery, painting, writing or photography, helping the young people discover their creative talents as a way to express their pain and their hope. Based at a residential treatment center, the program integrates children into a social experience where art is the common denominator rather than past abuse.
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Kapi'olani Child At-Risk Evaluation (CARE) Program
Honolulu, HI
Provide medical intervention to better diagnose signs/symptoms of child abuse: CARE will improve the ability of foster parent to provide care for the foster child & serve as centralized referral source for victims of abuse: CARE will prevent risk of re-abuse by providing forensic medical evidence and will be a resource for collecting medical data on the health status of children entering foster care.
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Protect Our Kids - Preventing Exposure to Violence
Hampton, VA
Children's exposure to violence at home, at school, or in the neighborhood, is the single most powerful risk factor for generating violent individuals in our culture. Protect Our Kids, a non-profit grant-funded program available through Transitions Family Violence Services, offers assessment, information and referral services to Hampton children who've witnessed violence. Protect Our Kids also leads a community education campaign to increase awareness of problems associated with children's exposure to violence and to positively change the community's attitudes to preventing children's exposure to violence.
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Teen Intervention and Prevention Program - TIPP
San Francisco, CA
Provide adolescent-appropriate domestic violence counseling, support, and advocacy for battered and at-risk teens and their children/siblings.
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CeaseFire
Chicago, IL
The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention is a collaborative public health approach to reducing violence that uses outreach, clergy, public education, and community mobilization to change norms and provide on-the-spot alternatives for highest risk persons. Twelve high-risk communities in Chicago have shown between 45% and 92% reductions in shootings using this approach.
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The Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families - Children's Advocacy Center
Orlando, FL
The Children's Advocacy Center provides a multi-disciplinary response to child victims of severe physical and sexual abuse. In addition, the Children's Advocacy Center serves the professionals involved in the investigation, treatment, and prosecution of such cases.
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Living in a Non-Violent Community (LINC)
San Francisco, CA
LINC is a multidisciplinary system to prevent child exposure to domestic violence (DV) and to reduce the harmful effects of exposure to DV through culturally conscious education of children, parent, teachers, health care providers and child care providers, and crisis intervention and therapy for children and families experiencing DV.
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Children's Assault Treatment Services (C.A.T.S)
Van Nuys, CA
The Children's Assault Treatment Service program (CATS) is located in the San Fernando Valley, comprised of nearly 1.8 million residents. CATS is the only 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week program in the San Fernando Valley and is dedicated to Children's Assault issues of prevention, treatment, and counseling. The CATS program provides compassionate, skilled treatment to children, ages 0-18 years, who have been traumatized by physical and/or sexual abuse.
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