Awareness
Community Awareness
Our Community & Youth Educator is in the majority of the schools we serve. She educates our youth about feelings, emotions, and healthy relationships. She continues to reach out to educate children of all ages and young adults to recognize that violence is not a means to an end. She also speaks with youth groups and area churches raising public awareness about the complex effects of domestic violence on individuals, children and communities. Last year we reached over 5,500 individuals through workshops, trainings and speaking engagements.
For information about our youth services or community education, please contact Brianna at
860.763.7430 ext 305.
Our Outreach and Education provides reliable, up-to-date information and resources about domestic violence, including how to offer support to victims and survivors. We actively raise public awareness about the complex effects of domestic violence on individuals, children and communities.
Our professional development training program’s goal is to provide a forum in which educational, health care, human resource and other professionals can build a foundation to understand the dynamics of intimate partner violence, the impact on children and teen dating violence. Professionals will learn how to recognize and appropriately respond to intimate partner violence situations.
For information about our professional development,
please contact Brianna at 860.763.7430 ext 305.
Awareness for Professionals
Awareness for Professionals
Our professional development training program’s goal is to provide a forum in which educational, health care, human resource and other professionals can build a foundation to understand the dynamics of intimate partner violence, the impact on children and teen dating violence. Professionals will learn how to recognize and appropriately respond to intimate partner violence situations.
For information about our professional development,
please contact Brianna at 860.763.7430 ext 305.
Law Enforcement Awareness
The Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) began in Connecticut on September 15, 2012. LAP is an innovative partnership with law enforcement to implement nationally recognized risk assessment strategies to better serve domestic violence victims in the greatest danger.
Modeled after the LAP first piloted in Maryland in 2005, this program is a two-pronged intervention process that makes use of a specialized lethality assessment instrument and an accompanying protocol. Trained police on the scene of a domestic violence call assess a victim’s risk for serious injury or death and can then immediately link those at greatest risk to their local domestic violence agency for support and safety information.
The Network was eager to start this innovative partnership and did so with the Windsor Locks Police Department in August of 2013. We proudly partner with all the police departments within our catchment area to inform and serve survivors of domestic violence about resources available. Our agency continues to work alongside our local law enforcement agencies to provide survivors with tools, support, and resources to help make them safer.
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