Family Violence Project

Filing Period

Oct 1, 2012 to Sep 30, 2013

Signed

Feb 13, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.3

Gross Receipts

$1,615,385

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Shelter services: provides temporary emergency shelter for domestic violence victims and their children; help residents obtain housing, tanf, food stamps, mainecare, housing assistance, employment and other resources residents may need in order to start over with their lives. 100% of clients who request help will receive assistance and/or a referral for appropriate sheltering. In fy 2013, family violence project sheltered 137 people. All other requests for shelter were referred to other shelters, safe homes, and community resources. The shelter in somerset county, funded by an ovw federal grant, supports sobriety for clients who have substance abuse and/or addiction issues in addition to domestic violence. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day and offers access to treatment programs as well as supportive programming within the shelter for residents and their children.

Activity 3

Community education: this program encompasses both general community education and school-based prevention education. Our community education programs are designed to improve the response of community systems and institutions to victims and perpetrators of abuse; increase community awareness of the dynamics of domestic abuse; encourage and support prevention and early intervention strategies; 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. Presentations are designed to 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.

Filer

EIN

01-0360714