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Mission
Casa’s
mission is to provide quality
prevention and treatment programs that reduce the impact of abuse
and violence, particularly among
women
and children; and raise public awareness of abuse and violence
while advocating for social change. The agency is currently organized
into
three operating divisions to accomplish its mission.
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The Violence Prevention Institute |
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The Outpatient Counseling Division |
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The Center for Social and Cultural Change |
The Violence Prevention Institute offers direct service to children
and adolescents through school programs. This division provides abuse
identification, violence prevention, and skill-building programs
that (a) prevent children from becoming victims of abuse and violence;
(b) prevent children from engaging in abusive and violent behavior;
and (c) prevent adolescents from becoming involved in abusive dating
relationships. Casa has developed two award-winning programs with
complete curricula to address sexual abuse for younger children and
date rape and dating violence for adolescents. The first program, No
More Secrets-Kid’s Talk, is a sexual abuse prevention and
safety curriculum for children ages 5 to 12. The second program,
POWER, is a teen dating violence and date rape prevention program
for adolescents, ages 13-18. Both of these programs are currently
in use in schools throughout the metropolitan Phoenix area. Kid’s
Talk and POWER are available for purchase outside of the Phoenix
area by school administrative personnel through Casa’s Store.
The
Outpatient Counseling Division offers direct counseling and psychotherapeutic
services to children, adolescents, adults and families throughout
the Phoenix metropolitan area. Counselors at Casa are specially
trained to provide trauma-related assistance to victims of child
sexual abuse,
victims of sexual assault, and victims of family violence.
The Center
for Social and Cultural Change is the research and development
arm of the agency. This division is Casa’s “Think Tank”.
It provides for the agency’s research, new program development,
and product marketing functions. This division also provides community
and government advocacy through collaborations with academic, social
service, government, and corporate partners to focus public attention
on issues related to abuse and violence. Information on programs,
curricula, and abuse and violence related products that Casa has
developed can be obtained through Casa’s Store.
Vision
Casa’s vision involves creating and nurturing a culture of nonviolence wherein abuse and violence are no longer quietly ignored or tolerated. Casa will seek to realize this vision through promotion of:
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Public awareness campaigns to spread the facts about abuse and violence |
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Changes to our educational system so that each child is taught
healthy relationship-building and conflict resolution skills
along with reading, writing, and arithmetic as mandatory subjects
in school |
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Violence and abuse prevention programming for children, youth,
women and families |
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Continued trauma stabilization and counseling services to victims
of abuse and violence. |
We are all responsible for Abuse
and Violence,
if for no other reason than we allow them to continue.
| Did you know? |
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Between certain ages, more children die from child
abuse than any other single cause |
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Between certain ages, more women die from relationship and
domestic violence than any other single cause |
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The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has declared
family violence to be an epidemic in the United States not only
in terms of mortality and suffering for victims, but in terms
of financial costs to American society |
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On a per capita basis, the United States is considered to be
the most violent of all industrialized nations |
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One out of four girls and one out of five
boys in the United States are sexually abused as children |
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One out of five women is sexually assaulted between the time
they have entered adolescence and completed college in the United
States |
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The CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has recently
elevated rape and sexual assault to the status of a “social
crisis” for young women in America, despite stronger law
enforcement and changes in judicial treatment of victims |
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The CDC considers rape and sexual assault to be leading contributors
to medical and mental health problems for women |
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Americans are spending more money on security
and self-protection than ever before |
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More Americans are moving into secure, gated-communities because
of fear rather than status |
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Regardless of who you are or where you live, abuse and violence
touch you and those you love |
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