VH services
Assisting people in living a life free of violence and abuse; providing short-term counseling and emotional support, and referring & connecting individuals to other services that could be of benefit.
What is Advocacy?
Initiative at VH that works with local alcohol-serving establishments to provide education and bystander training in identifying sexual aggression and relationship abuse.
What is Raise the Bar?
Program that assembles men in small groups and encourages them to rethink and redefine healthy masculinity
what is the 12 Men Model
Providing emotional support, safety planning, and systems navigation to older adults.
What is Elder Advocacy?
The locations of shelter remain _______ because of privacy and safety.
What is confidential?
Phone line available for deaf community to access VH services.
What is Vera House TTY?
Group of survivors and staff that are committed to sharing truth to bring awareness to others.
What is The Survivors Network?
Vera House staff going into schools and into young communities to teach about and promote healthy, respectful relationships, consent and equality, and deepen understanding of domestic & sexual violence and elder abuse.
What is Youth Education and Prevention?
VH staff can help victims of a crime file a claim with __________.
What is Office of Victim Services?
The smaller of VH's two shelters.
What is North Shelter?
Providing both short and long term counseling sessions and therapy/ support groups to those who are survivors/ loved ones of survivors of SA.
What is Counseling?
Campaign, ldd by men, that runs through the month of March, raising awareness to end violence and abuse.
What is The White Ribbon Campaign?
A training offered by VH that is designed to address the concerns that sexual harassment poses for employers and employees and provides a preventive approach to address workplace culture.
What is Workplace Sexual Harassment Prevention Training?
The comprehensive name of legal services that VH provides under direction of staff attorney.
What is The Legal Project.
The maximum length of stay in VH shelter.
What is three months?
Program for men/ male-identified people who have abused.
What is Alternatives?
Developing a way out of a relationship or situation, such as creating a signal or code word with loved ones or having money set aside.
What is Safety Planning?
The Vera House Campus Project, which was created to support colleges & universities maintain compliance with the law, is made possible/ was created because of...
What is the NYS Enough is Enough Law?
The name of Vera House's elder advocate support group services.
What is the Evergreen Network?
Shelter where there are two accessible rooms.
What is Main Shelter?
Program for women/ female-identified people who have abused.
What is Steps?
A display, coordinated in April, that provides an opportunity for survivors to bear witness to their personal experience of violence, and to celebrate their transformation from victim to survivor in a powerful statement of solidarity
What is the Clothesline Project?
VH staff that work together to review cases of suspected financial exploitation, physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect by others of older adults.
What is E-MDT?
Where VH is stationed for outreach services.
What is Onondaga County Department of Child and Family Services, the specialized domestic violence courts, and the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office?
The average length of stay at VH shelter.
What is 3-5 weeks?