WeaveInCorp.org
Title
Women Empowered Against Violence - Home Page
Description
Mission:
WEAVE works closely with adult and teen survivors of relationship violence and abuse, providing an innovative range of legal, counseling, economic and educational services that leads survivors to utilize their inner and community resources, achieve safety for themselves and their children and live empowered lives.
WEAVE's History
Women Empowered Against Violence, Inc. (WEAVE) was founded by American University law school students to provide holistic services to domestic violence victims in the District of Columbia. Having previously worked with domestic violence victims from a social work perspective, WEAVE's founders became interested in law to fill a gap in the services available to battered women. While they were student attorneys in the domestic violence clinic, the founders represented clients in civil protection order proceedings. They quickly learned that their clients needed more than temporary protection orders. Their clients needed long term legal representation for divorce and custody, as well as social service intervention for counseling, housing, and public assistance.
In 1996, WEAVE's founders conducted a community needs assessment of domestic violence victims in Washington, D.C. which confirmed their suspicions. The survey results revealed that many women were not receiving the wide range of legal services that they needed to achieve self-sufficiency and freedom from their abusers. Four specific gaps were identified: (1) no domestic violence legal services for the working poor who earn a salary above the poverty line; (2) a lack of support services that are targeted to non-immigrant domestic violence victims; (3) insufficient legal services for domestic violence victims who need long-term representation in divorce, custody, visitation, and other legal proceedings; and (4) an absence of counseling and social services specifically geared toward domestic violence victims.
Contact
- WEAVE
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- WASHINGTON DC
- United States 20036
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- +1.9999999999
