Victorias Place St Pete Inc

Programs: Victoria's place st. Petes residential services include the emergency shelter that provides a safe refuge, crisis intervention and advocacy when home is not a safe place. In addition, shelter participants receive food, clothing, and personal items. Victoria's place st. Pete provides sanctuary to approximately 500 survivors annually with approximately 50% of those being children. A total of more than 38,800 bed nights were provided for survivors. In addition to shelter services, victoria's place st. Pete outreach services reached over 2,300 survivors during the fy 2017-18 through its (continued on schedule o) (continued from part iii, line 4. A. ) various programs providing basic living needs, advocacy, counseling, assistance and support to survivors and their families. Crisis hotline advocates answered over 4,600 calls. Victoria's place st. Pete works closely with the pinellas county sheriffs office child protection investigation division to increase the safety of adult and child victims of domestic violence and helps to reduce the number of out-of-home child placements due to domestic violence through the cpid (child protective investigation division program). Victoria's place st. Pete's substance abuse program recognizes the perilous interconnection between substance abuse and battering. Residential and non-residential services are provided for survivors of domestic violence and their children. Survivors may be multiply impacted by domestic violence and substance abuse, legal difficulties, or other social barriers to independence. Survivors participate in casa's community support groups or in local community based programs that help and support navigation in utilizing the civil and criminal justice systems, substance use treatment, and other individualized needs. Staff also assist survivors at the clerk of courts making application for injunctions for protections. Community-based weekly support groups and individual crisis counseling for survivors not in victoria's place st. Pete's shelter provide support to those in crisis. Victoria's place st. Pete provides presentations and workshops to numerous mediums, civic, fraternal, professional, religious, school, neighborhood, and other groups annually. Victoria's place st. Pete's community education program emphasizes "it takes a whole community to stop domestic violence. " the peacemaker program provides holistic peace education to almost 2,500 preschoolers, elementary and middle school children in a wide variety of classrooms and schools throughout pinellas county, nurturing a sense of peace and justice during critical times in child development. Peacemaker also provides resources for teachers to continue the program in classrooms. Services are available to people within pinellas county and others in need, regardless of race, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, citizenship, religion, national origin, age, familial status, disability (physical or mental, including hiv status), military service or affiliation, veteran status, bankruptcy or bad debts, or genetic information. Victoria's place works collectively to develop a coordinated community response to domestic violence by collaborating with other service providers, public agencies, planning groups and funding bodies to promote community education, prevention and awareness on the subject of domestic and sexual violence and human traffickings conducts on-going research and evaluation in the areas of domestic and sexual violence, and human trafficking to ensure a high quality of service to our program participants as described above.