Aware 2020

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by Kait Osborne-Bias8 views·Updated Apr 22, 2021
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  1. Mhm aware Central texas 2020 fbu impact and who we
  2. are, our mission and vision.
  3. Our mission is to provide a collective response to those
  4. who have experienced violence and trauma through enhanced services, forming
  5. community partnerships and creating a sustainable change in central texas.
  6. Our vision is that we endeavour to incorporate the experiences
  7. of survivors and working to end the cycle of violence
  8. and build a coordinated response to violence and trauma in
  9. our community counties and cities that we serve.
  10. Our Family Violence Unit has three case managers and advocates
  11. who serve five of the surrounding counties.
  12. We have those counties and cities listed here so that
  13. you can see where the majority of awareness clients come
  14. from. Blanca is a case manager for fbu in Bell
  15. County. She covers clients from Temple, Seletto and Troy.
  16. Sophia is also a case manager for Fbu Inland passes
  17. County. She covers land passes Kempner and Lomita in Carroll
  18. county, she covers Gatesville, South Mountain and Oglesby, and in
  19. Bell County she covers Colleen Stephanie is an advocate for
  20. fbu in Bell County, she covers Belton Harker Heights, Nolan
  21. Bill in Bell County Sheriff's Department in Milam County, she
  22. covers Cameron, Buchholz and Milano and in Falls County she
  23. covers Rose bud, Chilton and Reagan.
  24. Now let's take a look at all the wares.
  25. Different programs.
  26. Aware central texas believes in providing a holistic approach to
  27. serving the community.
  28. Take a look at our easily accessible wraparound services designed
  29. to meet our survivors needs.
  30. First, let's take a look at C.
  31. S. A.
  32. Which stands for commercial sexual exploitation of youth.
  33. Human trafficking is a violation of human rights, in which
  34. victims are exploited for either labour or sexual acts for
  35. profit sex trafficking is when an individual uses force fraud
  36. or coercion to recruit harbor transport provisions, obtain patronized or
  37. solicit someone else for a commercial sex act.
  38. Now, let's take a look at F.
  39. S. D.
  40. Which stands for our family services department.
  41. Parent educators offer comprehensive case management through in home visiting
  42. parent educators, teach safe care and evidence based program for
  43. parents of Children five years old and younger, which focuses
  44. on improving parent skills in three main areas, parent infant
  45. child interactions, home safety and child health care.
  46. Now, let's take a look at the Education Department.
  47. Our education classes cover two main categories.
  48. First, parenting during class.
  49. Parents learned skills on how to raise self confident motivated
  50. Children by establishing healthy control without resorting to anger.
  51. Parents are also given the tools to help build relationships
  52. by providing guidelines for establishing both respect and dignity between
  53. themselves and their Children.
  54. Next is our anger management classes.
  55. This class is designed to help clients better understand and
  56. respond to anger and appropriate ways.
  57. During each session, clients learn to identify anger triggers, differentiate
  58. between healthy and unhealthy anger to set goals.
  59. It's a planned strategies for interrupting angry patterns.
  60. Now let's take a look at our community resources and
  61. survivor connect.
  62. Survivor connect provides victims of crime.
  63. Community resources.
  64. Community resources include crisis counseling for clients with and without
  65. insurance assistance with replacing documents such as birth certificates, social
  66. security cards and driver's license aware.
  67. Central texas also provides resources for emergency travel assistance with
  68. including transportation And travel and lodging up to 48 hours.
  69. Emergency clothing, food and hygiene items are available.
  70. Survivor connect also provides assistance for replacing windows, doors and
  71. locks. Lastly, let's take a look at our counseling services.
  72. FDU counseling services are tailored to meet the specific needs
  73. of each client counseling services include but are not limited
  74. to initial mental health evaluations with realistic treatment plans.
  75. Fbu counseling services provide brief trauma focused therapy to adults,
  76. individuals, families and groups.
  77. Information is also provided through referral services, care, coordination, psycho,
  78. education and crisis assessments.
  79. Now, let's take a look at our stats for Fbu
  80. in 2020.
  81. Yeah, In 2020 a wears Fdu Department alone served almost
  82. 900 clients.
  83. Yeah. You can see in this pie chart to your
  84. right where aware services have been referred from or where
  85. we have obtained r referrals, You can see the three
  86. main categories and red yellow in the dark green.
  87. Let's start with the red local law enforcement agencies.
  88. This includes Temple Clean and Belton pd along with Belton
  89. County Sheriff's Department.
  90. Next you see in the yellow referrals that came from
  91. child protective services and in the green referrals that came
  92. to us from Baylor, Scott and White.
  93. The chart to the left of the screen further breaks
  94. down the type of victimization that aware received referrals for
  95. a current project that we are extremely excited about this
  96. project, silhouette aware Central texas project silhouette is an exhibit
  97. of life size silhouettes whose purpose is to represent those
  98. central Texans who have been victim of domestic violence or
  99. who have died tragically at the hands of an intimate
  100. partner. The purpose of the project is threefold.
  101. Remember those killed by a spouse, partner, ex spouse or
  102. partner or intimate equipments, create awareness of the risk factors
  103. for intimate partner violence and domestic homicide and promote action
  104. to end violence against women.
  105. Each life size silhouettes represent someone in our community who
  106. has suffered from domestic violence or was the victim of
  107. domestic violence homicide.
  108. These silhouettes tell their stories, honor their lives and provide
  109. a collective voice in order to create awareness and prevent
  110. future domestic violence homicide.
  111. For more information on how you can participate or contribute
  112. to this project.
  113. We ask that you please contact our program coordinator Kate
  114. Osborne bias at kate at aware central texas dot org.
  115. In conclusion, we would love to leave you with links
  116. to our social media's so that you can stay connected
  117. with us in your folders, there's a QR code.
  118. You can scan for easy access to all of these
  119. links, stay updated on all the excited things where Central
  120. is doing by following our social media pages.
  121. Thank you so much for your time and for listening
  122. to this presentation for aware central texas.