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Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc.
Celebrating Families! ™

Courtney Green
Department of Sociology
The University of Texas at San Antonio
SOC 4933 – 24 September 2014 Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc.
Celebrating Families! ™ Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc. (FVPS) is a non-profit organization whose goal is “to break the cycle of violence and to strengthen families” (“About Us”). The organization accomplishes this by providing an array of services to help those suffering from domestic violence. This includes both residential services, such as the Battered Women’s Shelter, educational services, and on-site medical and dental care, and non-residential services, such as counseling services, legal services, and the …show more content…

has a CEO/President and a Board of Directors that oversee the entire organization and its various services. Staff, volunteers, and interns typically work at either at the Shelter itself or at the non-residential services building. The non-residential services building has counseling services, legal services, outreach programs and the CF program. Within the CF program, there is a Program Director, a Program Manager, and a Program Assistant who oversee and organize the program as a whole and facilitators and co-facilitators that work directly with clients. Interns work with the Program Manager and/or Program Assistant on non-program days. On Program Night, interns work directly with clients as co-facilitators alongside …show more content…

™ is a 16 week program dedicated to helping families where one or both parents are chemically dependent to break the cycle of addiction. The mission of this program is to help both parents and their families learn to lead healthy, responsible, and addiction free lives. It works to help with the recovery of parents with chemical dependency and also helps ensure that their children do not become chemically dependent when they get older. Children in families affected by chemical dependency tend to be at a higher risk of addiction themselves because they learn unhealthy living skills. This program not only teaches the facts about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs and chemical dependency, but also works to teach healthy living skills such as healthy boundaries, goal setting, and nutrition. Family reunification and strengthening is also a very important aspect of this program. It works to create positive relationships between parents with chemically dependency and their children. To help foster this relationship, this program explains to all members of the family that chemical dependency is a disease. It teaches children that they did not cause the disease nor can they control the disease.
Each night begins with a family meal, where families sit together and share a meal. After that, family members separate into different class sessions based on age groups: Preschool, Children/Adolescent, Preteen, Teen, and Parent. There is also childcare available for those

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