Family Violence Project

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2011 to Sep 30, 2012

Signed

May 28, 2013

Return Version

2011v1.5

Gross Receipts

$1,418,709

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Shelter services: temporary emergency shelter for domestic violence victims and their children; assistance is given to help residents obtain housing, tanf, food stamps, mainecare, housing assistance, employment and other assistance residents may need in order to start over with their lives. 100% of clients who request help will receive assistance and/or referral for appropriate sheltering. In fy 2011, family violence project sheltered 131 people. All other requests for shelter were referred to other shelters, safe homes, and community resources. During the year, we began operating a domestic violence shelter in somerset county, funded by a federal grant, which supports sobriety for women who have substance abuse and addiction issues. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day and offers access to treatment programs as well as supportive programming within the shelter for women and their children.

Activity 3

Community education: this program encompasses both school-based prevention education programs, which educate and support children and youth to understand domestic violence and its consequences in order to reduce the likelihood that they will become abusive or enter into abusive relationships; and community education programs, whose purpose is to improve the response of community systems/institutions to victims and perpetrators of abuse; increase community awareness of the dimensions anddynamics of domestic abuse; help develop a comprehensive plan to encourage and support prevention and early intervention strategies through a systems approach; and build relationships with community groups and individuals. The school-based program offers six age appropriate presentations for students in pre-school and kindergarten, grades 1-3, grades 4-6, middle school, high school, and adult education.

Filer

EIN

01-0360714