HELP INCORPORATED CENTER AGAINST VI OLENCE
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Mission Statement
Improve the quality of life for victims of sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and dating violence throughout the lifespan by providing holistic services delivered empathetically to empower victims to make decisions that will enhance safety, increase self-worth, promote positive change, and eventually lead to self-actualization. Enhance the community’s awareness of issues surrounding victimization, including the dispelling of myths, and promote collaborative community action efforts to stop victimization.
About This Cause
Help, Incorporated: Center Against Violence was created by the Reidsville Cooperative Christian Ministry in 1971 to provide a crisis and suicide telephone service for Rockingham County, NC residents. From 1976 until 1998, the agency provided information and referral services. In 1982, the agency received grant funds to implement a domestic violence program. For the next several years, services included shelter referral, court advocacy, and weekly support group. In 1994, Freedom House, Rockingham County’s first and only domestic violence shelter opened its doors. Since opening Freedom House, the agency has expanded its advocacy program to include law enforcement, judicial, and healthcare systems. In 1998, Help, Inc. began offering services to victims of sexual violence, as well. The agency has become a leading rural service provider in the state through innovative efforts to address the multifaceted needs of victims across the lifespan. Special programs and initiatives include: law enforcement ride along, comprehensive domestic elder abuse services, Latina outreach, therapeutic groups, a county-wide comprehensive domestic violence assessment process, and multidisciplinary case management for both elder and child victims. In January, 2010, the agency expanded to include Kaleidoscope Children’s Advocacy Center. Therapeutic intervention, forensic interviewing, and medical evaluation, are a few services offered through Kaleidoscope. Multidisciplinary Case Review is perhaps the most critical service, being that it brings a coordinated response to cases of child abuse in Rockingham County. The District Attorney’s office, Department of Social Services, law enforcement, forensic interviewers, medical evaluators, mental health providers, and advocates review cases jointly every month to ensure that children receive the best services, offenders are held accountable, and that victims and their families are given that best chances for healing. In 2016, Help, Incorporated launched an initiative to transform into a Family Justice Center to better serve the victim populations in Rockingham County. SquareOne Family Justice Center services are already being offered, and a new building is being designed. Help, Incorporated also expanded to serve human trafficking victims, as well as began a special focus on LBGTQ victims and students who are victims of sexual, cyber, and physical bullying. About the Organization Help, Inc. is a private, non-profit agency dedicated to providing services to victims of violence in rural Rockingham County, North Carolina. The agency is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, and receives funding mainly through federal, state, and private grants. Local county government, the United Way, and private donors also provide ongoing funding for agency operations. The agency also operates resale shops throughout the county to assist with program expenses. The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors employ the Executive Director, who is responsible for program development and service delivery, administration and human resource management, community relations, financial management and legal compliance, and reporting directly to the Board of Directors. The Deputy Director, the Director of Kaleidoscope Children’s Advocacy Center/Clinical Director, and the Director of Crisis Intervention Services, along with the Executive Director, make up the management team and are responsible for ensuring that all client services are rendered in a safe, fair, and empathic manner.