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Find a safe way to use the internet by accessing a safe
computer. Even if you take cautionary steps such as using an email
that your abuser cannot access or deleting stored information from
your web browser, your abuser may be able to see what web sites you
have been visiting and emails you have been sending.
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Programs
and Services
- Help for Survivors/Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence
Our intent is to meet the self-identified needs of survivors, at
any and all points in their healing processes, through supportive
listening, emotional support, identification of strengths, and
resources and expertise offered to victims and their families.
HOPE Center advocates provide crisis intervention, support counseling,
information about options, help with protection planning, assistance
with systems, and referral to other resources for survivors and
secondary victims. HOPE Center also provides emergency services,
such as transportation to shelters or local safe homes for adults and
children who are in immediate danger.
Click on these links for more
information:
Power &
Control
Wheel,
Equality
Wheel, What You Should
Know, What Is
Domestic Abuse?, A
Guide for Friends and Family,
Stalking,
Sexual Harassment,
Services for Victims of Sexual Assault.
- Legal Advocacy
Advocates provide information about law enforcement and court
procedures; information about victim rights and reparations; assistance
with court remedies such as Orders for Protection, Harassment Restraining
Orders; and accompaniment to civil and criminal court hearings.
HOPE Center maintains a close relationship with all law enforcement
agencies in Rice County to ensure the needs and rights of survivors
are respected.
- Group Interaction
HOPE Center provides formal and informal style support groups
for adult survivors of sexual and domestic violence. See our Support
Groups page for more information.
- Community and Professional Education
Free, specialized trainings are provided to employers, professionals,
educators, and criminal justice professionals. General presentations
about our services and/or the prevalence of sexual and domestic
violence are made to church groups, service organizations, and
any other interested forums.
- Systems Change
With the goal of going beyond individual assistance toward community-wide
solutions, HOPE Center regularly networks with such systems as
social services, criminal justice agencies, and the medical community,
and provides them with screening and assessment tools.
- Child Resiliency Project
The CRP's mission is to engage Rice County to proactively
respond to the impact domestic violence has on our youth through
courageous and honest community programming. The following services are examples
of the types of work the CRP is engaged in:
- Individual Child Resiliency Plans, which identify a child’s
strengths and vulnerabilities.
- Coordination with area schools and community programs.
- Youth presentations on family violence, healthy relationships,
safety planning, power and control, personal body issues
and building resiliency.
- Videos, brochures and other resources.
- Training workshops for professionals
so that they can offer safety planning and other support
to children.
- Rice County Sexual Assault
Multidisciplinary Action Response Team (SMART)
The SMART of Rice County began in mid-2004, with the mission of
creating and implementing an integrated, victim-centered
response to sexual assault that is inclusive of all communities
and promotes healing, justice and accountability. The Rice
County team is the ninth SMART in Minnesota. Five disciplines
are required to create a team: law enforcement, medical care,
probation, prosecution, and advocacy. Other organizations
involved in the response to sexual assault — mental health/counseling, human services, schools,
and colleges — are also contributing members of the Rice County
SMART. HOPE Center administers the grant with the support and
guidance of the Sexual Violence Justice Institute (SVJI).
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Through the generous support of WINGS, our Choose Respect
Initiative has been targeting youth to help them understand and
recognize the dynamics of healthy relationships. We believe that
once youth feel empowered, they will Choose to Give Respect and to
Get Respect.
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HOPE Center 303 1st Avenue NE Faribault,
MN 55021
24 hour SafeLine: 800-607-2330
Business Line: 507-332-0882 Fax: 507-332-6999
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