Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, RI
Safety and Resilience for Survivors and Their Children in Rhode Island Project will improve Rhode Island’s domestic violence prevention and response systems and equip Rhode Island’s domestic violence agencies to more fully and effectively respond to the wide range of needs of victims of domestic violence and their children.
This project will focus on three primary objectives: 1) training domestic violence service providers across Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center, the Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County, Elizabeth Buffum Chace Center, and the Women’s Resource Center to strengthen and increase capacity to apply an evidence-based, comprehensive, systems approach to domestic violence service provision and prevention; 2) providing evidence-informed training to Rhode Island’s Department of Children, Youth and Families to improve its response to and involvement with families experiencing domestic violence, with a focus on the non-abusing parent and their children; and 3) expanding services provided to victims of domestic violence and their children throughout the state of Rhode Island to provide a greater level of support, advocacy, safety, and healing options. These expanded services will include counseling services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault; creative expression workshops for trauma survivors; a creative arts therapy program; advocacy for children staying in residential programs; outreach to abused parents that speak Spanish and Portuguese; and referrals to and from our Safe Exchange and Supervised Visitation Center. The target population for this project is non-abusing adult victims of domestic violence and their children and youth living in Rhode Island.
