Case Study: The YWCA Interim House Of Detroit

Domestic violence is an unruly conduct that has plagued our nation for many past centuries. It’s an assaultive and coercive behavioral pattern which involves physical, sexual and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion, which generally male partner’s uses against their intimate partners.
Domestic violence is not an isolated individual event; it’s usually a pattern of multiple tactics and repeated events. Unlike stranger to stranger violence in domestic violence the assaults are repeated against the same victim by the same perpetrator. These assaults occur in different forms, such as: * Physical assault: assault with lethal weapon, hitting, pushing, pulling hair, holding down, Emotional assault: criticizing, blaming,
verbal threatening * Sexual assault: Sexual demands, forcing sexual acts against your will * Psychological assault:
From results of the enormous amount of nationwide known cases of this unlawful behavior temporary emergency shelter homes has been developed throughout the nation to provide safety, emergency housing and temporary assistance.
One of the largest facilities here in Michigan which also has a few locations within Detroit is called the YWCA. I visited the YWCA interim House of Detroit to get some incite about when the facility was discovered and developed within Detroit and the comprehensive services they provide, how is the organization funded, and what their morally objective.
The YWCA Interim House of Detroit is located on 6 mile and Wyoming. This facility is a temporary emergency housing for battered women and their children. The YWCA Interim House is a segmented unit of the YWCA. The facility opened its doors in 1979, becoming one of the first and the largest shelters in Michigan. The shelter environment is safe, comfortable, caring and supportive. The average length of stay is 60 days. A) YWCA Interim House comprehensive services:

* 24 hour crisis
line * 67 beds * Food and clothing * Individual, family & children and group counseling * Residential and non-residential support groups * Legal advocacy * Sexual assault advocacy * Children services * Community education * Information and referrals financial assistance, medical services and permanent housing

B) YWCA Interim House funding:

* The Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention & Treatment Board of the Family Independence Agency * United Way Community Services * City of Detroit CDBG/ESG * Federal department of housing and urban development * Donations from private groups and individuals

Objective:
Assist women and child recover from the effects of domestic violence and sexual assault by providing adequate resources which accommodate their needs, provide counseling, advocacy, safety and for rebuilding a healthy level of self-sufficiency and prevention from homelessness. The objective is to acquire independence by alleviating crisis

What population participates in the program?
Women and their children that has fallen victim of domestic violence and sexual abuse
Who presents the program or interventions?
Counseling: with child
Group counseling
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: is used for the post traumatic stress and also with helping the victim to avoid being revictimized of this behavior
How did they determine a need for the program?
Statics has revealed that there has been an subsequent number of cases of domestic violence world-wide and many of the abuse victims had no safe place to refugee to run because attackers usually follow their victims to relatives and friends houses. So shelters, also known as safe havens for women was originated, so women and their children would have an adequate place to go for their safety and assistance. Also, currently with the effects of the weaken economy particularly in Detroit statics has showed that about one Detroiter in four who is able to work a job and is unable to find one, domestic violence thrives at this such times. Domestic Violence now has its own full-time criminal docket at 36 District
Court.

Conclusion:

A significant amount has been learned within the recent years regarding the epidemiology of violence against women yet information regarding evidence based on approaches in the initial care setting for preventing intimate partner violence is seriously lacking. The health and well-being of abused