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Join the Largest Family Justice Center Network in the World

With our decades of experience, proven framework, and gold standards, the Family Justice Center Alliance ensures your community’s Family Justice Center is ready to best support survivors of family violence and their children. The collaboration, support, and guidance we provide increases efficiency, reduces survivor retraumatization, and enhances the overall impact of your center.
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How a Family Justice Center Benefits Your Community

A Family Justice Center provides a centralized, coordinated approach to addressing domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, and human trafficking. By bringing needed community services like legal aid, counseling, housing assistance, and medical care under one roof, a Family Justice Center makes it easier for survivors to access the help they need without navigating complex systems.

Collaboration through a Family Justice Center improves response times, increases efficiency and reduces duplicated efforts, and enhances the effectiveness of intervention and prevention.

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Why Open a Family Justice Center

Learn more about what a Family Justice Center is and how one can improve the lives of survivors in your community.

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Reduced Homicides

Family Justice Centers create a coordinated community response that enhances victim safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides comprehensive support to victims and their children.

Research shows that through this strategic community response, coordinated, multidisciplinary services can lead to better outcomes in domestic violence and family violence cases.

Studies demonstrate that this integrated approach helps to lower the severity of violence and contributes to a decrease in fatal incidents.

Reduced Recantation and Minimization by Victims

Family Justice Centers reduce recantation and minimization by offering a safe, streamlined environment where survivors only need to share their story once.

Family Justice Center support helps survivors secure their own autonomy and create pathways forward in their lives.

This minimizes the stress of repeating traumatic details to different agencies and ensures victims receive consistent, trauma-informed care.

Increased Service Provider Collaboration

Family Justice Centers increase collaboration by bringing together experts from a range of fields, like social support and legal services, all in one place.

This coordinated approach ensures that each survivor in need gets comprehensive care.

By sharing a location, resources and expertise, survivor service providers can streamline support and more efficiently help your community.

Increased Efficiency in Collaborative Services

Family Justice Centers boost efficiency by co-locating multiple support services—like law enforcement, legal aid, healthcare, and social services—in one location and implementing processes for multi-agency collaboration.

This setup streamlines communication, reduces duplicated efforts, and ensures that survivors receive coordinated care faster.

By fostering a multidisciplinary approach, Family Justice Centers help professionals share critical information quickly and work together more effectively.

Increased Empowerment for Survivors

Family Justice Centers empower survivors by simplifying access to essential services. In one convenient location, survivors can connect with legal experts, counselors, and other professionals who work together to support their unique needs.

The Family Justice Center collaborative approach builds confidence and increases hope, improving outcomes and gives survivors a stronger voice and more control over their journey to safety and recovery.

Increased Offender Accountability

Family Justice Centers increase the prosecution of family violence and sexual assault offenders by centralizing resources and optimizing collaboration among law enforcement, legal professionals, and victim advocates.

This multidisciplinary method means evidence is gathered more efficiently and survivors receive trauma-informed, hope-centered support, which reduces the stress of repeating their stories and reduces recantation.

With stronger, consistent documentation and expert guidance, prosecutors are better equipped to build robust cases, ultimately leading to higher prosecution rates and improved community safety.

Reduced Fear and Anxiety for Survivors and Their Children

Family Justice Centers reduce fear and anxiety by creating a secure, welcoming space where survivors and their children can access the help they need in one place.

This comprehensive approach means there's no need to navigate multiple agencies, making it easier and less intimidating to get support.

Through the support of multidisciplinary services and professionals on hand, survivors feel more understood and safe, a key step toward healing and rebuilding their lives.

Dramatically Increased Community Support

Family Justice Centers increase community support by providing a centralized location where victims of violence can access a range of services.

This "one-stop shop" model streamlines the survivor support process, which can include emergency and transitional housing, legal assistance, counseling, and law enforcement support.

With so many essential agencies collaborating, Family Justice Centers provide an efficient, comprehensive system to positively impact your community.

Join a Community Built to
Support Survivors

As a member of the Family Justice Center Alliance, your Family Justice Center will be part of the largest community in the world dedicated to supporting family violence survivors through collaborative aid.

Our collaborative approach doesn’t just support survivors. Our collaborative approach supports Family Justice Centers by sharing best practices and gold standards, providing experienced and expert technical assistance, and offering comprehensive, professional training.

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Benefits of Affiliation

Permission and ability to utilize trademarked logos and taglines
Shared messaging and toolkits for social media engagement
Free registration for the Director to the Annual Family Justice Center Leadership Summit
Access to meeting space in Fort Worth, Texas
Political advocacy and representation
Connection and referrals to experts in the field
Discounted access to H7 at Hope Mountain (Our retreat center for survivors, staff, and board members in Allenspark, CO)
Admission to the National VOICES Survivor Network for a member of your local VOICES Survivor Committee
Access to search engine optimization tools, including recommended Google ad words and phrases and suggested ad content
Invitations to participate in special projects
Information on current trends and best practices
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Why Partner with Us

  • Gold Standard for Family Justice Centers Across the World

    The Family Justice Center Alliance supports and works with Family Justice Centers worldwide, creating the highest standards.

  • Visionaries of the Family Justice Center Movement

    The Family Justice Center Alliance helped create and establish the Family Justice Center movement not just in the U.S., but across the world.

  • Be Guided by an Expert Team

    As a member of the Family Justice Center Alliance, you’ll collaborate with experts in domestic violence and community support, receiving technical assistance to operate your Family Justice Center at peak effectiveness.

  • Over 20 Years of Experience

    The Family Justice Center Alliance has over two decades of experience in assisting communities of all sizes to establish Family Justice Centers. Let us put our experience to work for your community.

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