NEXT DOOR
Description: NEXT DOOR Solutions to Domestic Violence is a nonprofit,
multi-cultural agency dedicated to providing proactive and
progressive solutions to domestic violence. NEXT DOOR offers a range of services to individuals in abusive relationships, starting with
emergency intervention and continuing through self-sufficiency.
Target demographics: Next Door helps rebuild the lives of victims of domestic violence and their children in Santa Clara County.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Victims of Domestic Violence and their children, immigrant and citizens alike, from diverse ethnic families, of all ages.
Geographic areas served: Santa Clara County
USA locations: Santa Clara County, California
Board Members and Affiliation: Marianne Adoradio, HR Consultant
Patricia Bashaw, Community Leader
Peggy Borgman, Owner Preston Wynne
Abraham Darwish, Realty Consultant
Margaret Epperheimer, Public Relations--Hewlett Packard
Melissa Hollatz, Attorney--Wilson Sonsini
Ginny Lebacqz, Community Leader
Wayne Mascia, President Wayne Mascia Associates
John Radford, CEO at Aon Consulting
Cheryl Sanchez, Accountant
Chris Stedman, Bank--Silicon Valley Bank
Linda Sullivan, Finance Director, World Wide Marketing, Apple, Inc.
Kristin Welter, Physician--Palo Alto Medical Clinic
Randy Ziffer, VP Operations--Xsigo Systems
Next Door seeks “to enddomestic violence in the moment and for all time,” addressing all sides of theissue by rebuilding the lives of victims, fostering healthy choices forchildren, and advocating for responsible policy change at the city, county andfederal levels. To achieve its goals, Next Door provides innovative preventionand intervention services to diverse ethnic and low-income families in SantaClara County, California, the majority of them coming from San Jose. Next Doorsees the issue of DV as an intergenerational cycle of transmission--children ofvictims and batterers tend to exhibit high-risk behaviors that enable thetransmission of self-destruction and violence to continue. By addressing DVfrom this perspective, Next Door both rebuilds the lives affected by thetraumas of DV, and prevents further violence for future generations.
