What We Do

The Center for Women and Families provides trauma-informed advocacy and support for individuals, families and communities affected by intimate partner violence and sexual assault. We also offer assistance to family, friends, and partners close to survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault. We mitigate the impact of trauma by building resiliency and reducing risk factors at all levels. We join forces with survivors to help them in building violence-free lives and families.

To learn more about our services please visit our services page.

Community Education

The Center leads several primary prevention projects that engage individuals in acting affirmatively to create safe communities. Our work includes the following projects:

  • Green Dot/It’s My Space: These are evidence-based active bystander intervention programs that The Center uses to teach individuals how to identify potential incidents of violence and how to safely and effectively intervene.

  • Awareness Activities: Each year, The Center provides community education and training to more than 10,000 people. Through community education, The Center strives to build awareness about its services, dispel common myths, increase public knowledge, enhance professional skills and provide a framework for prevention.

  • Professional Training: The Center’s Prevention Education Team trains professionals (e.g., attorneys, physicians, police, and educators) to recognize violence where it occurs in their communities and to become “active bystanders” thereby reducing violence and preventing its reoccurrence.

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