MARJAREE MASON CENTER INC
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Mission Statement
Marjaree Mason Center supports and empowers adults and their children affected by domestic violence, while striving to prevent and end the cycle of abuse through education and advocacy.
About This Cause
Founded in 1979, after the tragic death of Marjaree Mason at the hands of her abuser, the Marjaree Mason Center (MMC) mission is to support and empower adults and their children affected by domestic violence, while striving to prevent and end the cycle of abuse through education and advocacy. For 40 years, the Center has operated Fresno County’s only dedicated provider of domestic violence shelter and support services. At its start, the agency operated a shelter for women and their children, with 15 beds and a 7 day limit to stays. Over the past 40 years, that has grown to 156 beds for adults and children regardless of gender, socioeconomic background, race, sexual orientation, or religion. The average client served is an adult with two children who stays an average of 33 days in emergency housing. In transitional housing, those we serve stay an average of 134 days. Services have been expanded to include housing, counseling, advocacy, education, treatment, and crisis support making Marjaree Mason Center the largest comprehensive domestic violence services provider in California. Marjaree Mason Center services include two safe houses with a 156 bed capacity, group and individual counseling, support groups, legal advocacy and court accompaniment, education for victims, community outreach, 52-week batterers' intervention programs including anger management, parenting classes, and healthy relationship skills, and a 24-hour crisis support hotline. MMC also brings kNOwMore programs, teaching dating violence awareness and healthy relationship skills, to with five school districts and twenty-four junior and high schools in the county. Marjaree Mason Center safe housing includes, but is not limited to, emergency housing, emergency food and clothing, weekly case management, professional and peer counseling, goal and achievement planning, job searching, budgeting, SAFE groups, support groups, parenting classes, family stabilization, housing planning, and transitional housing. In addition to the two safe houses, Marjaree Mason Center maintains offices in Fresno, Clovis, and Reedley providing counseling, legal advocacy, case management, and transitional housing needs in the metropolitan and rural communities within Fresno County including the cities of Fresno, Clovis, Coalinga, Dinuba, Firebaugh, Fowler, Huron, Kerman, Kingsburg, Mendota, Orange Cove, Parlier, Reedley, San Joaquin, Sanger, Selma, and others. In 2018 alone, Marjaree Mason Center provided 6,098 adults and children with services. 1,232 adults and children were provided 56,000 nights of safe housing, 2,170 hotline callers were provided with assistance, 993 adults received legal assistance, over 800 adults participated in the batterers' intervention programs, and 5,724 individual and group counseling sessions were held for adults and children The annual event, which celebrates Marjaree Mason’s birthday, hosts over 550 attendees including community members from all areas including community leaders, business owners and entrepreneurs, philanthropic individuals, and community influencers aged 18 through 85. The event raises an average of $250,000 annually to support the Marjaree Mason Center services including two confidentially located safe houses, legal advocacy and services to victims of domestic violence, individual and group therapy for adults and children, a 24-hour/7-day-a-week crisis hotline, and education for those who have experienced domestic violence and for the community at large.