Project Align targets caregiver survivors of family, domestic, dating, gender-based and interpersonal violence (referred to as DV) and their children ages 0 to 18 in Sullivan and Grafton County, New Hampshire and Windsor County, Vermont. With community partners such as WISE of the Upper Valley and Turning Points Network, as well as youth and caregivers and leaders from mental health and child welfare, we aim to increase the capacity for services and systems to better meet the needs of caregiver survivors and their children through a 3-tiered approach:
- Direct mental health services and related support to caregivers and children
- Community prevention and advocacy
- Multidisciplinary system coordination.
Individual and family-level
At the individual/family level, we will build the capacity for direct mental health counseling and trauma-informed care for non-offending caregiver survivors and their children.
Community-level
At the community level, we will enhance prevention and advocacy work. We will develop new prevention and educational programming with our DV partners, youth, and caregivers targeting youth identified as at-risk for DV. We will also create and disseminate guidance information through training and public service announcements focused on the promotion of DV- and trauma-informed, safe practices.
System-level
At the system level, we will build a multidisciplinary collaborative infrastructure for advocacy, best practices, and equitable, coordinated care with youth and families between DV agencies, child welfare, mental health, and other community partners.
Contact Project Director Logan Paluch, MEd, MPH, by email at logan.v.paluch@hitchcock.org for more information.
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