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• “Women Of Worth” Group (WOW) is a psycho educational group that provides support and information to women victims of Domestic Violence. The group meets once a week is twelve to fifteen weeks long, and each session is up to two hours. To accommodate working mothers, groups start at 6:30 pm and runs concurrently with the children’s groups.

• Children/ Intermediate/ Adolescent Groups (CIA) is a support group formed to meet the needs of children who are living or were living in domestic violence situations. The group is 12 – 15 weeks and meets once weekly from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. These groups run concurrently with the WOW group.

• Teen Girls Group is a support group specifically formed to serve girls who have been victims of sex crimes. The group meets for ten focused sessions when the need arises from 4 –6pm weekly. After the 10 sessions the group transitions to bi- weekly sessions for 2 months. The group’s focus is to empower participants, develop life skills, establish healthy relationships, and help the victim regain their innocence.

• Junior Adolescent Management Group (JAM) is a support group formed to serve adolescents who are exhibiting inappropriate anger outbursts in school, at home, and in the community, which usually stem from domestic violence in the homes. The suggested length of the group is 6 – 8 weeks and meets once per week from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. The group serves boys and girls 12 – 17yrs of age. While the group meets, two counselors are available to help parents with their parenting issues and equip them with effective parenting skills. The group focus is to empower participants with the anger management and life skills necessary to become positive male/female role models.

• Family and Youth Crisis Intervention Program (FYCIP) provides education and early prevention intervention via parental and adolescent groups. These group settings foster a safe place for the parents and children independent of each other to express themselves with out one offending the other. Participants learn new and alternative ways of effective communicating, negotiating, expressing feelings (besides anger and happiness), values, etc. The program initiates parental resilience, provides knowledge of parenting and child development from both perspectives (parents and child’s) and provides opportunities for the assessment and development of children’s social and emotional competence.

• FYCIP Rites of Passage (ROP) focus is to provide families an opportunity to evaluate their experiences and incorporate choices and positive changes leading to healthier family lifestyles. This experience develops new levels of self respect and respect for others within and outside the family unit. “Rites of Passage” (ROP) program takes place on Saturdays and functions like Saturday school. The ROP program addresses many of the issues of concern with our young males in the community. The program provides meaningful connections that can be used effectively by boys throughout their adolescent years and on to adulthood. Each participant is provided individual as well as family counseling.

• Bilingual Program FRC’s Bilingual program is staffed with a bilingual Social Worker (Spanish speaking) who is responsible for the providing counseling services to female victims of crime. The program seeks to reach the underserved non-English speaking population through advertisement of our services and community outreach. The Bilingual Social Worker is aided by two case workers one Spanish speaking and one French/ Patois speaking.

• Men Terminating Violence (MTV) participants are generally men who are first time offenders and have been court ordered to the Family Resource Center to receive counseling. A total of 51 – 55 hours is usually required for completion of the program. To achieve this, participants attend a weekly two-hour session for a total of 24 sessions (each session is $20.00). Additionally, an intake session and two subsequent individual sessions with the class facilitator(s) is required each for $20.00. All make-up sessions are $30.00. A down payment of $150.00 is required before the participant can begin the program. A sliding scale fee can be arranged for participants that are unable to pay the required fee. The goal of MTV is to transition the batterer from exerting power and control in unhealthy violent relationships to respect and equality in relationships.

• Women’s Anger Management (WAM) is a psycho educational group established to treat women who are or have been in a violent relationship and have been arrested for domestic violence. The group meets for 15 sessions from 5:30pm to 7:00pm (date and times may fluctuate). The fee for the group is $360.00. This includes an intake session and two subsequent individual sessions with the class facilitator(s), each meeting is $20.00. The group’s fee may be paid in installments. The group’s goal is to encourage a positive way of thinking, behaving, and responding to life situations.

• Volunteers are everyday individuals from our community who volunteer in a number of capacities at the agency’s counseling center (filing, answering phones, assistance with groups, children room monitoring, support for agency functions like marches or fund raisers or at the emergency shelter/ safe house (training provided).
• Volunteens are teenagers from the local public or private high schools completing community service requirements (These teens may include Junior Angel Volunteers are high school teens preferably a junior or senior assigned from the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands CFVI program). They will support the counseling center or represent the agency during marches, outreach and fund raiser activities.