OUR MISSION
Vision
A community of strong, healthy families free from the devastating effects of violence.
Mission
The mission of the Family Justice Center is to facilitate a coordinated and comprehensive approach to family violence through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
Mission Goals
A community of strong, healthy families free from the devastating effects of violence.
Mission
The mission of the Family Justice Center is to facilitate a coordinated and comprehensive approach to family violence through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
Mission Goals
- Provide victim-centered services that promote victim autonomy to build a future of choice, safety and opportunity
- Increase safety, promote healing, and foster empowerment through services for victims and their children
- Shape services to clients by asking them what they need
- Commit to the utilization of culturally competent service approaches that are measurable and behavior based
- Evaluate and adjust services by including survivor input
- Offer survivors a place to belong even after crisis intervention services are no longer necessary
- Integrate primary, secondary and tertiary prevention approaches into all initiatives, programs and projects
- Maintain close working relationships among all collaborators/agencies
- Develop a Family Justice Community that values, affirms, recognizes and supports staff, volunteers and clients
ABOUT THE KNOXVILLE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER:
- Founded in 2006, the Knoxville FJC is one of 15 Presidential Family Justice Centers in the country funded through the Office on Violence Against Women, Office of Justice Programs, United States Dept. of Justice.
- In the first year, the Knoxville FJC served 1,257 victims of domestic violence.
- More than 60 governmental, non-profit, and medical agencies collaborate to provide a coordinated response for victims of family violence.
- Prior to the opening of the Knoxville FJC, domestic violence services were in 20 separate locations, now there is one place to call, one place to go.
