Our Services
"SIS will operate 5 days per week, Monday through Friday, from 9 AM to 5 PM to honor staff and community time for worship services and wellness."
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"In our first year, we are introducing two key initiatives: a full-time executive director and case manager to coordinate comprehensive services. These services will include prevention, intervention, advocacy, and support groups and workshops for up to 10-20 clients as we grow and develop. Our focus is on supporting underserved communities of color and low-income populations to foster self-sufficiency and empowerment."
"As part of our program evaluation, we monitor progress, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), and demonstrate its impact, relevance, efficiency, and adherence to quality standards."
Startup Services
Education and Prevention Services:
Workshops and community outreach events that raise awareness and seek to prevent family violence.
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SIS employs a multifaceted approach to intimate partner violence prevention. This approach is tailored to the individual needs of each client.
Key components of our approach include:
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Educational Initiatives: Raising awareness about the signs of abuse and healthy- unhealthy relationships, including teen dating violence.
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Batterer Intervention Programs: Educating offenders from engaging in further abuse. These programs focus on accountability, behavior change, and breaking the cycle of abuse and trauma, especially in marginalized communities.
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Empowering Clients: Helping survivors navigate the system to access essential services and rebuild their lives, free from abuse and trauma.
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Resource Provision: Offering support and resources for individuals in abusive situations.
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Promoting Healthy Relationships: Encouraging healthy, nurturing relationship dynamics.
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Workshops and Support Groups: Providing platforms to address various aspects of intimate partner violence, including teen dating violence.
By collaborating with survivors and organizations, SIS creates safe spaces and support networks where survivors and families can seek help without fear of judgment or stigma. We meet clients where they are and empower them to navigate the system and access available resources.
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Through compassionate care and outreach programs, "SIS" strives to break the cycle and patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV), offering survivors the tools they need to rebuild their lives and transform their experiences into sources of strength.
Intervention Support Services Coordination:
We provide
comprehensive support services to victims of domestic violence and their families. We offer:
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Information and Support: We provide information about domestic violence, legal rights, and available resources. We also offer emotional support and guidance to help individuals navigate their situation.
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Safety Planning: We assist individuals in developing personalized safety plans to protect themselves and their families from harm.
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Housing Assistance: We help victims access temporary housing options, such as emergency housing or transitional housing programs.
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Crisis Intervention: We connect victims with immediate crisis intervention services, such as hotlines, counseling, and medical care.
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Community Referrals: We connect victims with organizations that can provide legal advice and support, as well as services for children and families.
By providing these essential services, we empower survivors to rebuild their lives and move forward towards healing and well-being.
Basic Needs:
Meeting basic needs is a crucial step toward regaining control and well-being.
Scars Into Stars offers a pathway to help find and coordinate essential resources such as:
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Food
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Furniture
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Clothing
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Mental and Physical Wellness Workshops and Classes
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Financial Literacy Education
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Support for Children and Young Survivors Who Witnessed Domestic Violence.
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Our support extends beyond immediate necessities, encompassing information and assistance to empower survivors on their path to recovery.
By addressing these fundamental needs, we strive to create a culture of healing and rebuilding that:
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Does not retraumatize clients
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Empowers clients to make critical decisions about their future
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Prioritizes client goals, concerns, and values
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Treats each individual with empathy, integrity, respect, transparency, accountability, and mindfulness
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Acts in the best interest of the client, not SIS or other agencies providing direct services to our clients.
As a survivor-founded organization, we understand the need to go beyond traditional support. We aim to:
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Provide comprehensive support: Offer more than just phone numbers and referrals or advising survivors to simply get restraining orders and file police reports. We'll create policies and procedures that are not punitive or demeaning, and that are culturally sensitive and mindful of the conscious and unconscious biases that many survivors, low-income individuals, and people of color face when seeking help, support, and protection.
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Reduce retraumatization: Minimize the need for survivors to retell their stories multiple times.
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Facilitate timely access to resources: Help survivors access help and opportunities when they need them most.
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Empower survivors: Equip survivors with the tools and knowledge to rebuild their lives.
​Emergency Housing search assistance
At Scars Into Stars, Inc., we are committed to supporting our clients and their families by helping them find safe, affordable housing options, whether temporary or permanent. We will work to connect survivors and their families with available emergency or affordable permanent housing whenever relocation is necessary due to immediate or imminent danger or homelessness.
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While we cannot guarantee immediate placement for all clients, our dedicated program strives to provide support and advocacy to help them transition to a stable, safe environment during this critical time.
We are committed to helping survivors on their journey to empowerment, hope, and recovery.
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Note: Scars into Stars does not provide direct shelter placement. However, we will coordinate temporary emergency placement for clients in need of housing assistance who may be facing homelessness or are homeless and in immediate danger.
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Victim Advocacy- Adult
Provision of information, support, safety planning, assistance with accessing resources, protection orders, system navigation
Victim Advocacy- Child
Provision of information, support, safety planning, assistance with accessing resources and protection.
Referrals
Scars Into Stars assists victims and survivors by connecting them with essential services.
Connection With Resources
Connection with resources to supply food, shelter and clothing.
Workshops and Community Outreach Events
Workshops and community outreach events that raise awareness and aim to prevent family violence. Provision of information, support, safety planning, assistance with accessing resources, protection orders, system navigation.
To inquire about our domestic violence services Connect With Us!
Goals
Decrease the waiting period for clients to access services on a community-based level.
Provide a safe, supportive environment for victims and survivors to seek help without needing court protection/restraining orders.
Increase and improve communication, trust and accountability amongst agencies serving culturally diverse communities of color and underserved populations.
Reduce domestic violence abuse, physical injury, loss of life and children being placed in foster care systems or under department of children and family system.
Reduce the number of victims that become homeless due to IPV, including child witnesses and family separation – particularly amongst families of color, and low-income underserved populations.