Hope for Hurting Families: Creating Family Justice Centers Across America

Hope for Hurting Families: Creating Family Justice Centers Across America by Gwinn, Casey. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781884244308.

This is the story San Diego Family Justice Center…the first comprehensive "one stop shop" in the nation for victims of family violence and their children. Today, victims can come to one location to talk to an advocate, get a restraining order, obtain counseling, plan for their safety, talk to a police officer, meet with a prosecutor, receive medical assistance, counsel with a chaplain and get transportation help. It is a unique, special, safe place.“Hope for Hurting Families” is the road map for the creation of Family Justice Centers across America, and around the world in the years to come.As a result of the President’s Family Justice Center Initiative, fifteen centers have opened across America.