Who We Are
The Family Justice Center of Washington County is a non-profit offering wrap-around services to survivors of family violence, all in one place.
We host a collaboration of agencies in a single center dedicated to providing safety, healing, and hope to people impacted by violence and abuse.
By coming together to offer holistic, coordinated services, we are breaking the cycles of violence and abuse in Washington County.
Holistic-Focused
Increase safety, promote healing, find hope, and foster empowerment through wrap-around services for survivors and their children.
Survivor-Centered
Provide Survivor-centered services that promote survivor autonomy, choice, healing, and hope.
Survivor Driven
Shape services to clients by asking them what they need and engaging them throughout the center.
Culturally Responsive & Equitable
Commitment to the utilization of culturally relevant service approaches and continuously examining equity and access to the center.
Community Engagement
Engage all communities through outreach and education to stop violence and abuse before it starts.
Transformative
Evaluate and adjust services by including partner, community, and survivor input and evidence-based best practices.
Relationship-Based
Maintain close working relationships among all partners, all partners are included and utilized, and all partners feel valued and of value..
Prevention-Oriented
Integrate primary, secondary and tertiary prevention approaches into all initiatives, programs, and projects in the center to not just break the cycle, but end it.e.
Kindhearted, Hope-Centered
Develop a Family Justice Center community that values, affirms, recognizes and supports staff, volunteers, and clients.
Kindhearted, Hope-Centered
Develop a Family Justice Center community that values, affirms, recognizes and supports staff, volunteers, and clients.
Belonging
Offer survivors a place to belong even after the crisis intervention services are no longer necessary..
Offender Accountability
Increase offender accountability through center collaboration and evidence-based prosecution strategies.
The Four C’s
Partners use Communication, Collaboration, Cooperation, and Coordination, to ensure survivors receive seamless wrap-around services.
One Vision
Partners join the Family Justice Center committed to a common vision—ending violence and abuse in our community.
Problem Solving
No survivor is the same as another, and partners will work to meet all their diverse needs.
Together
While every partner is part of an autonomous organization, inside of the FJCWC we are one team, leveraging each of our expertise, and becoming greater than the sum of our individual parts to reach our shared vision.
Trauma Informed
The center is built on a foundation of Safety, Trust, Awareness, Equity, Voice, Choice & Empowerment, Mutual Collaboration, and Connection & Growth.
Our Guiding Principles
Our History
Previously, survivors of violence and abuse would have to travel around the entire county to access valuable resources, many wouldn’t know the wide range of resources offered, some would give up.
Our community wanted something better for survivors.
In 2014 our community convened a group of over 60 stakeholders including elected officials, service providers, law enforcement, community members, and most importantly, survivors, to design something new. After four years of planning, the Family Justice Center of Washington County opened its doors.
Now, in one place, survivors have access to advocacy, counseling, restraining orders, safety planning, legal aid, food assistance and much more provided by a committed group of agencies, and coordinated for seamless access.
Since opening in 2018 we have served over 21,700 survivors, and we envision a future in which that number is zero.
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