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- EIN 94-2939363
- 1385 Mission St. Ste 300 San Francisco CA 94103 USA
- http://menovercomingviolence.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Adult & Child Matching Programs, Children & Youth, Crime & Law, Domestic Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Homeless & Housing, Spouse Abuse Prevention
Mission: Men Overcoming Violence (MOVE) was founded in 1981 by a group of men who realized that the effort to end domestic violence had to include men.
MOVE's understanding of men's violence is that it is learned, and can therefore be unlearned. We believe that it is the responsibility of each individual to stop his violence. However, we see our culture as condoning, or at best ambivalently confronting, that violence.
We recognize and intergenerational cycle of violence in which children exposed to domestic violence are likely to repeat the behavior as teens or adults.
Consequently MOVE works with men and boys to help them:
1. Take responsibility for their violence.
2. Learn healthy ways of expressing themselves.
3. Understand gender roles and their socialization as men.
4. Lead violence-free lives.
5. Form healthy relationships.
MOVE does this by providing counseling for abusers and public violence prevention education for all men and boys. Much of the prevention work is done through the schools.
Programs: MOVE has four operating programs:
Our Violence Prevention Program reached over 2000 youth in public schools and through youth-serving agencies. One important part of the program is a weekly class for youth incarcerated at Juvenile Hall. MOVE's message of hope and compassion for men has enormous impact on youth on whom many have given up.
In August MOVE created a Community Action Team (CAT) that organized an event in a San Francisco housing project. Adolescents spoke eloquently about their experiences with violence in their homes and in their communities. They invited the community to join them in changing attitudes that support that violence.
The Dating and Family Violence Groups for Adolescents were formed in 1996. We have averaged six young men attending these groups at any one time. Individual and family counseling is also offered to these young men and, when it is safe to do so, to their families.
We have established protocols with Juvenile Probation that help to hold the young men accountable and pay careful attention to the safety of the victims of the violence. MOVE was recently instrumental in forming the San Francisco Dating Violence Task Force.
Our Adult Batterer Treatment Program, which has been running since 1981, counseled over 450 adult men last year. We implemented a new unit in our yearlong curriculum that focuses on the impact of domestic violence on children that witnesses it. Many of our clients were themselves witnesses to violence as children, and the unit is a moving one. It helps men understand the intergenerational cycle of violence and commit to breaking that cycle.
MOVE's program for Gay and Bisexual Men Who Batter was one of the first in the country and remains one of the few ongoing programs of its type.
There are differences in how violence looks in same-sex relationships, and it helps us expand our analysis of domestic violence beyond gender. We can look at other manifestations of power and control in the society. We saw nearly 50 homosexual and bisexual men in the program last year.
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