“Doing DAIP classes, I was not happy about it and didn’t want to, but that all changed quickly. I always looked forward to it and what I would learn and see differently. Blessed I took this class.”
Victim Advocacy Programming
Our Victim Advocates offer safety and support to all adult and child victims of domestic and sexual violence. Everyone deserves peace, hope and to live free of domestic, dating and sexual violence, stalking and human trafficking.
Services Include:
Services are free, confidential and available regardless of race, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disabilities.
If you've received advocacy services from us, we'd like to hear from you! Click here to take a brief client survey.
Services Include:
- 24-hour Help line: Listening ear providing support, information and advocacy
- 24-hour Crisis Response Services
- Advocate by helping survivors understand their rights, options and processes (Medical, Legal, Child, and Personal Advocacy).
- Connect people with supportive community resources and organizations (legal, housing, medical, financial, emotional).
- Safety Planning
- Assistance with Protection orders
- Both Crisis intervention and on-going supportive services are available regardless of law enforcement involvement or length of time since assault or abuse.
Services are free, confidential and available regardless of race, gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disabilities.
If you've received advocacy services from us, we'd like to hear from you! Click here to take a brief client survey.
Prevention Programming
Our Prevention Advocates work to create communities that have no tolerance for sexual, dating or domestic violence. The Prevention team is building safer communities by providing programming that helps students develop skills necessary to have healthy relationships. The team also works to improve the community’s response by empowering adults and youth with information so they can identify those in need and those exhibiting harmful behaviors and respond safely.
CCI Prevention team works to address the root causes of violence as we increase awareness, promote healthy relationships that shift cultural norms away from accepting violence, address common risk factors associated with these crimes and promote protective factors that build resilience.
Programming Provided by the CCI Team:
Our team also seeks out unique opportunities for educational conversations about domestic and sexual violence.
CCI Prevention team works to address the root causes of violence as we increase awareness, promote healthy relationships that shift cultural norms away from accepting violence, address common risk factors associated with these crimes and promote protective factors that build resilience.
Programming Provided by the CCI Team:
- Natural Helpers Retreats
- Safety Matters Curriculum
- One Love Escalation Workshops
- In Their Shoes Simulation
- Stewards of Children
- Coaching Boys Into Men
- Athletes As Leaders
- Changing Minds
Our team also seeks out unique opportunities for educational conversations about domestic and sexual violence.
Batterer’s Intervention Programming
As an agency providing interventions to address the needs of victims of domestic violence, we believe that addressing the motivations of the perpetrators of these crimes is essential to ending the cycle of violence within the communities we serve. There are various motivations pushing individuals towards the choice of using violence.
Our Batterer’s Intervention Programming aims to change behavior, beliefs and attitudes that support the use of violence. Programming provided strives first for victim safety while also holding perpetrators/participants accountable for their actions and teaching them to change their behavior.
Our Batterer’s Intervention Programming aims to change behavior, beliefs and attitudes that support the use of violence. Programming provided strives first for victim safety while also holding perpetrators/participants accountable for their actions and teaching them to change their behavior.
- Programming available for both males and females
- Participants can either be referred by the court system, Department of Child Services or self-referred.
- All participants will be assessed to determine if their situation is appropriate for the program.
- Male Batterer’s programming includes an assessment, 24 weeks of group sessions and an exit interview
- Female Batterer’s programming includes an assessment, 14 weekly 1:1 session
- Program fees apply
“Thank you so much for everything you have done to assist me. I know it’s your job, but I truly appreciate your level of knowledge and compassion. I did not fathom the relief a piece of paper could bring me. Only thing I would change is doing this many years ago. But then I wouldn’t have met you or maybe not realized how helpful Crisis Connection can be in these situations. I was on Main Street today and he pulled out from a side street onto Main and passed me. For the first time since I can remember I didn’t have that flushed feeling and that urgent unsettled feeling in my body. And I merely thought of him for just a few seconds. My family was different last night, like their stress was gone.”
CRISIS CONNECTION INC. AND ITS STAFF OFFER SERVICES WITHOUT REGARD TO OR DISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF RACE, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ABILITY, ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGIN, AGE, RELIGION, GENDER, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, POLITICAL AFFILIATION OR BELIEF, MARITAL STATUS, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, OR STATUS IN REGARD TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE OR VETERANS STATUS IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS.