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What is a Family Justice Center?

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A Family Justice Center (FJC) provides one place for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, child abuse, and human trafficking to receive life-saving services from both non-profit and governmental agencies currently spread throughout their community.
 
The FJC model creates a collaborative, family-friendly, victim-centered, trauma-informed, hope-centered environment, in which a multidisciplinary team of professionals works together in one, centralized location to provide coordinated services to survivors. The framework brings the services together for survivors and their children, allowing them to go to one place – as opposed to multiple locations – for all available services, and creates a community for survivors long after the crisis is over.

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What are the benefits of a Family Justice Center?

  • Domestic Violence is a significant public health issue that has individual and societal costs. 
  • About 75% of female Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) survivors and 48% of male IPV survivors experience some form of injury related to IPV. IPV can also result in death. 
  • Data from U.S. crime reports suggest that about 1 in 5 homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner, and over half of female  homicide victims in the United States are killed by a current or former male intimate partner
  • FJCs more efficiently and effectively serve survivors and their children, while also encouraging collaboration among co-located system-based and non-profit advocates. Better outcomes for survivors and their children contribute to a safer society and break the cycle of violence.
  • The FJC Model has been endorsed by the federal government and Office of Violence Against Women as a best practice, based upon improved outcomes across multiple factors – health outcomes and reduction of ACE scores, prosecution rates, and homicide reduction. Creating FJCs in Delaware will reduce the cost of interpersonal violence – both the human cost and the societal, economic cost – and break the cycle of violence for future Delawareans.

All this information and more is available here:

Family Justice Center Framework Impacts Published Findings & Outcomes