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- EIN 34-1278377
- (216) 229-2420
- Child Advocacy Ave Cleveland OH 44101 USA
- www.dvcac.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Hot Lines & Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Mental Health & Crisis Intervention, Spouse Abuse Prevention, Suicide Prevention
Mission: Empower individuals, educate the community and advocate for justice to end domestic violence and child abuse.
Programs: Shelter/supportive services - provides safe, protective housing in a confidential location for up to 45 women and children daily. Also, provides a 24 hour family violence hotline. Provides life skills, housing assistance, advocacy case management, family development and employment assistance for women and their children after they leave the shelter.
community services - includes justice system advocacy, peer support groups, latina outreach, supervised visitation, counseling, and community education programs including personal safety skills and parenting classes. Community services also include programs that are classified under a combined service called trauma therapy. This includes diagnostic assessment which is provided as an initial evaluation and planning component for all agency mental health programs. All assessments are done on a face-to-face basis. Individual counseling provides therapy for children and adults who are dealing with consequences of child abuse and neglect. Individual counseling consist of a series of time-limited, structured, face-to-face sessions that work toward the attainment of goals. The children's treatment group is for children who have been sexually abused, neglected or subjected to extreme trauma. The adult survivors groups are designed to meet the treatment needs of adult survivors of emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse and neglect.