HAVEN (Hospitals Helping Abuse & Violence End Now)
HAVEN (Hospitals Helping Abuse & Violence End Now) offers direct services to MGH patients, employees, and community member survivors of intimate partner abuse in order to help improve survivors’ health and safety, as well as their housing, employment, and financial circumstances.
Recognizing the association between intimate relationships and health, the health care setting is an ideal place to provide services to survivors of intimate partner abuse (IPA). HAVEN Advocates are available at MGH Boston, as well as the health care centers in Revere and Chelsea, to provide direct services to patients, employees, and community member survivors of IPA. HAVEN also provides training, consultation, and policy advice to providers at MGH.
Through a culturally diverse and linguistically appropriate array of supportive services, HAVEN provides counseling, advocacy, support groups, and workshops, from adolescence through adulthood. HAVEN helps connect survivors to needed services, provides information and referrals relating to the legal aspects of domestic violence, and accompanies survivors to health care, legal, or other appointments. Strong community partnerships with legal, elder, child, and other health care services are integral to HAVEN’s work.
In 2012:
- 630 survivors served; 376 new referrals were made to HAVEN: 32% were brief interventions, 55% were for safety planning, 14% were for legal services, 13% were for housing/emergency shelter.
- HAVEN advocates facilitated 29 support groups.
- New partnership with Casa Myrna Vazquez allows access to legal counsel for HAVEN clients.
- Advocates consulted with the Casa Myrna Vazquez lawyer on behalf of 60 clients.
- The Casa Myrna Vazquez lawyer actively worked with 46 HAVEN clients over 341 hours. Legal Topics included: 23% Family Law, 21% Children’s Issues, 17% Safety Planning, 16% Restraining Orders.
- HAVEN provided 81 trainings and outreach activities to a total of 1847 participants; 22 trainings were given on HAVEN services; 18 trainings were given on intimate partner violence; 16 trainings were given on Teen Dating Violence.
The HAVEN program at Mass General Hospital held activities at Revere High School to shine a light on Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week.
http://www.reverejournal.com/2011/02/23/raising-awareness-about-teen-dating-violence/
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STAFF AT THE MGH play a crucial role in the lives of their patients.
Stories of strength, hope and healing
It was a morning of honest, powerful speeches at the Sept. 5 anniversary breakfast for HAVEN (Hospital’s Helping Abuse and Violence End Now). The group has provided counseling, advocacy, support groups and workshops to domestic abuse survivors at the MGH for 15 years.
The HAVEN program at Mass General Hospital held activities at Revere High School to shine a light on Teen Dating Violence Awareness Week.
http://www.reverejournal.com/2011/02/23/raising-awareness-about-teen-dating-violence/
Contact HAVEN
Phone: Boston: 617-724-0054
Email: haven@partners.org
HAVEN Advocates are available Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 5 pm. After hours and on weekends, call 1-877-785-2020, Massachusetts Statewide Hotline, Safelink.
Contact us to schedule an appointment or with any questions.
Boston: 617-724-0054
Chelsea: 617-887-3513
Revere: 781-485-6108
