Women Moving On Inc

Programs: For the year ended december 31, 2017, wrcdv operated the following programs:24-hour hotlineour hotline advocates are available 24-hours each day to answer questions and provide peer-counseling support, safety planning, and referrals. Safe house programour safe house provides secure and confidential temporary housing for women and children. We help women reclaim their personal strengths, work toward their goals for the future and transition into a safe and stable living situation. Legal advocacyour legal advocates assist women in obtaining temporary protective orders, criminal warrants, child support payments, and temporary custody of their children. Advocates help clients explore legal options on a case-by-case basis. Consultations with volunteer attorneysin partnership with dekalb legal aid, we offer a free legal clinic one evening per week. Services are provided at our community office in decatur. Support groupswomen who are currently, or have formerly been, in an abusive relationship come together in our support groups to receive emotional support, resource information and friendship. Groups are co-facilitated by trained volunteer and staff advocates. Making changeour personal financial strategies program helps women who have experienced financial abuse or poverty engage, both emotionally and practically, with their finances. They learn to build the support and resources necessary to provide for themselves mentally, physically, spiritually and financially. Community-based advocacyfamilies not residing in our safe house receive respectful, individualized support to meet self-determined goals. Services highlight family strengths and encourage opportunities to re-imagine self and circumstances. Child and family advocacychildren residing in our safehouse experience a safe and nurturing environment for living and children are embraced by a community of support to help ensure their needs are met. A core component of our programming for children is peace education, in which children explore topics such as self-awareness, acceptance, tolerance, cooperation and compassion. By participating in group and individual sessions, children learn how to manage feelings of anger and frustration, discuss their fears and practice peaceful conflict resolution techniques. Children also learn that the violence they witnessed and/or experienced is not their fault. Camp peacethe mission of camp peace is to bring children exposed to domestic violence together for a month of activities that facilitate peace education, action, compassion and empathy. Based on principles of peace education and cognitively-based compassion training, camp peace will help children learn alternatives to violence while promoting tolerance, impartiality, affection, self-compassion and compassion for others. Elder abuse advocacyindividuals experiencing domestic violence later in life have unique challenges. Our elder abuse advocacy program helps connect older adults with supports and protections specific to their needs as they seek to live safe and healthy lives. Nias place supervised visitation and exchange centernias place provides supervised visitation and supervised exchange of children for families affected by domestic violence. Nias place provides a place for visits and exchanges to occur that prioritizes the physical and emotional safety of the entire familydating violence preventionour dating violence prevention workshops take our message of equality and respect in relationships to elementary, middle, high school and university students in the atlanta area through sessions led by staff and peer advocates. Community educationwe provide community education programs to schools and universities, hospitals, law enforcement, religious leaders, faith-based groups, civic organizations, and others throughout metro atlanta. A community that collectively stands against domestic violence is the key to ending abuse.