YOUR DONATIONS AT WORK
We are excited to share profiles of two of the fifty current grant recipients with you so you can read how your billable hour donations to the AAML Foundation are helping children and families struggling with the breakup of their families. Together we can make a difference across the country!
Alice Paul House
The Alice Paul House, located in Indiana, Pennsylvania, works to educate, advocate for and empower victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and other crimes, as well as juvenile offenders. Their services are provided at no cost and are confidential. The Alice Paul House provides services such as multi-session programming addressing a range of issues, from making good choices to helping women deal with trauma to taking accountability, finding motivation for change and developing healthy relationships; individual and group counseling; and education advocacy including violence prevention education and crisis intervention volunteer training.
In addition, the Alice Paul House maintains an around-the-clock crisis hotline with trained volunteers to provide support for victims/survivors; provides safety planning services as a primary intervention tool when working with victims/survivors, their children and significant others; offers on-call advocacy to respond to legal, medical and community questions; and offers specialized, short-term emergency shelter and victimization support services for victims/survivors and their family members when in need of safe shelter. The Alice Paul House also offers the services of victim advocates who can, among other things, provide legal advocacy, provide support and protect the rights of victims/survivors seeking Protection from Abuse Orders and Sexual Violence Protection Orders/Protection from Intimidation Orders, and provide medical advocacy for victims/survivors.
Emerge, Inc.
Emerge, Inc. (“Emerge”), located in Malden, Massachusetts, was founded in 1977 and was the national’s first batterer intervention program. Emerge seeks to educate individual abusers, prevent young people from learning to accept violence in their relationships, improve institutional responses to domestic violence, and increase public awareness about the causes of, and solutions for, partner violence. Emerge has developed parenting education groups for fathers, expanding its mission to include the goal of assisting men to become more responsible parents. The program serves as a national and international resource center and has provided training sessions on domestic violence in 48 states and 26 nations, with its staff conducting an average of two such sessions or community education forums per week.
Emerge has also pioneered school- and community-based preventive education programs. It worked with another organization to establish one of the nation’s first preventative education programs aimed at teenagers, the Dating Violence Intervention Project, which developed a preventative education curriculum being used by many schools and youth programs in Massachusetts and other states. In addition, Emerge has been a leader in providing education and outreach for abusers of specific racial and cultural backgrounds (including Latino, Vietnamese and Cambodian men), and in same-sex relationships, programs accompanied by education and outreach into the relevant communities.