Target demographics: support and empower adults and their children affected by domestic violence, while striving to prevent and end the cycle of abuse through education and advocacy
Direct beneficiaries per year: more than 9,600 adults and children including over 89,478 nights of safe housing, life-saving assistance to 4,081 hotline callers, and 3,917 individual group and counseling sessions.
Geographic areas served: Fresno County
Programs: safe housing (emergency, transitional, and long-term) with two safe houses with a 156 bed capacity, group and individual counseling for adults and children, legal advocacy and court accompaniment, case management, resource navigation, education for victims, community outreach, batterer’s intervention programs including anger management, parenting classes, and healthy relationship skills, and a 24-hour crisis support hotline.
MMC also brings kNOwMore programs, teaching dating violence awareness
and healthy relationship skills, to with five school districts and twenty-nine
junior and high schools in the county.