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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.