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Family Therapy
Strengthening Families and Healthy Relationships
We aim to avoid domestic abuse by helping families to strengthen their bonds. Some of the problems of abuse come from misunderstanding, mental health issues and personal differences. Examples are:
- Mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, antisocial personality disorder, and schizophrenia.
- Poverty and unemployment.
- Low levels of education among women.
- Being a young parent.
- Relationship retention behavior.
- A man’s superiority complex and the inherent evil of chauvinism.
- Cultural differences between husband and wife.
- Self-defense.
- Alcohol and drug dependence.
- Suspicion of infidelity.
How our workshop helps
Parents in the average family are usually busy at work and may find it difficult to build strong relationships at home. They must put in extra effort and need a lot of patience if they are to build ties. Sometimes they need outside help like our workshop for strengthening families. Our program helps families build a strong family foundation by helping families to iron out differences, understand each other as people, and bond.
Importance of a strong family foundation
Having strong relationships helps us to feel at ease and plays an essential role in maintaining good health. Family members get to really know each other by sharing experiences, aspirations, and problems. Some of the recommendations are:
- Make eating together a habit.
- Spend quality time together
- One-on-one time with each family member
- Involvement in the children and partner (spouse)’s interests
- Daily expressions of love and support
Healthy relationships
We partner with area high schools, colleges, and religious organizations to ensure that young people have the tools they need to:
- Identify and build healthy relationships.
- Support each other and family members.
- Develop leadership skills that promote gender fairness and challenges violent attitudes and behaviors.
Housing Resources
Domestic violence is a major cause of homelessness among women and children in America. We do not believe that anyone should be forced to choose between staying in an abusive relationship and becoming homeless. For that reason, we have developed a wide range of housing resources to help keep survivors of domestic abuse off the streets and in safe and stable housing.
Partners
We have partnered with members of our community to whom we refer our clients to.
Confidential Emergency Shelter
We are busy raising funds so that we can create a confidential emergency shelter to serve families and individuals facing dangerous domestic situations. We hope to have individual apartments that can accommodate families and individuals. In addition to housing services, residents receive family and children’s advocacy services.
Communal Shelter
We plan to build and operate a communal shelter to provide confidential transitional housing and supportive services for families healing from domestic violence.
Flexible Fund
We are busy looking for funding so that we can have funds available for survivors of domestic violence. Through this fund, we can provide short term rental assistance to survivors, or help survivors keep or find housing by stopping evictions or paying any expenses that they cannot meet.
Support Group
Blessed by Design offers a face-to-face and virtual support groups to survivors of domestic abuse. The support group is an opportunity to connect and share personal experiences and feelings, discuss surviving strategies, and find comfort and support from others. Survivors can come to our offices or meet via secure zoom video calls. They are led by a trained support group facilitator.
Survivors
If you wish to participate, complete our support group interest form. One of our staff members will reach out to you by phone within 3 days to explain the group in more detail and to formally register you. Our services are free, safe and confidential. If you are interested in the virtual group, you can access it on computer, tablet, or mobile phone.
Donors
Equipment, office space, and internet access cost money. Help us to keep our support group going by donating cash or equipment.
Anger Management
While control issues and self-esteem issues contribute to domestic violence, anger may be a problem as well. Therefore, we employ anger management as treatment for domestic violence if the case point to anger as a contributing factor.
Anger management training gets to the root of the issues of a domestic abuser. Through our training we teach respect, empathy, taking responsibility for own actions, how to identify cognitive distortions, and how to develop healthy communication and relationships. These aspects of anger management are skills for transforming the emotion of anger into healthy behavior, and they have been proven to be effective in treating perpetrators of domestic abuse. That is because abusers rarely take responsibility for their actions, and this endangers their partners and children. So, they have a strong need for a program that will hold them accountable for their actions.
We hope that through our anger management program, we will stop domestic violence in some families and help them to become stronger and more loving.
Vocational Training
One of the things that abusers do is to keep their victims dependent so that they never leave. In order to stop that dependency, we value vocational training for survivors of domestic abuse, and we aim to get many of them job trained. Research has proven that vocational training increases the employability of domestic violence survivors, increases survivors’ confidence, and has a stronger impact on the employment of older women.
Our vocational training program helps our beneficiaries to find a new career path by focusing on in-demand jobs.
Once we get them trained for jobs and they are confident enough to go out there and work, we can then wean them as they rejoin society as normal human beings. They can then pay their own rent and raise their families. As a result, they never need to go back to the abuser for financial support.
To do all this we get grants from the government, but it is not enough. We need donations from individuals, nonprofit organizations, small businesses, corporations, clubs, and religious organizations.
Self-defense Classes
Our self-defense classes are more than physical. We help participants to develop easy-to-use techniques such as awareness, verbal confrontation, and assertiveness skills combined with physical techniques and safety strategies to prevent, resist, and escape violent assaults. So, our program combines physical training with psychological awareness and verbal skills.
Our program encourages women and children to think in terms of options and choices, and develops their awareness and assertiveness skills. We also provide practical physical self-defense techniques. We expand the way the victims think about violence prevention and help them to deal with their fears and enable them to feel more empowered.
We never blame our participants for being assaulted though they may sometimes exercise poor judgment, which is human. We never tell any participant what she should or should not do. We offer options, techniques, a way of analyzing situations, and a wide range of strategies. Each situation is unique, so we point out what usually works best in most situations. We teach them that the final decision rests with them when they are confronted by a dangerous situation, and they want to survive.