Program Goals

The goals of those receiving services from Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center are:

• Regain control of their life
• Regain a sense of safety and well-being
• Heal from trauma
• Rebuild their life
• Obtain Gun Violence Restraining Orders to remove firearms from dangerous situations before potential tragedies occur, if needed

Logic Model

View the Logic Model for Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center.

Essential Components

The essential components of Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center include:

• Ensuring that all services offered are confidential to create a safe environment for clients seeking support
• Collaborating with a team of dedicated community partners and volunteers to deliver services effectively and efficiently in a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed manner
• Raising awareness in the community about domestic violence, elder and family abuse, sexual assault, and sex trafficking to promote prevention and intervention
• Offering services free of charge, ensuring accessibility to those in need
• Types of services include:
• Safety planning
• Advocacy
• Government program assistance
• CalFresh – Food
• CalWORKS – Employment
• MediCal – Low-income insurance
• Childcare while receiving services
• Head Start programming
• Clothing and emergency items
• Confidential address requests
• Counseling:
• Individual
• Group
• Peer-to-peer support groups:
• Boys/Men
• English
• Spanish
• Court support:
• E-filing of DVROs
• Document and Court preparation
• Court accompaniment
• Remote court appearances
• Housing locating assistance:
• Emergency
• Transitional
• Short-term
• Long-term
• Financial literacy and job placement programming
• Food
• Forensic interviews of children
• Forensic interviews and examinations of adults
• Health and well-being services
• Law enforcement assistance, if requested:
• Copies of police reports
• Criminal protective orders
• Speaking to detectives
• Status of criminal cases
• Legal assistance:
• Family Court
• Immigration
• Vacaturs
• Restitution
• Locksmith services
• Military assistance
• Mobile Clinics in the Community
• Safe Phones
• Substance use and abuse assistance
• Restraining orders:
• Domestic Violence
• Civil Harassment
• Gun Violence
• Transportation
• Services for children and adolescents of parents who experienced domestic violence:
• Developmental assessments
• Teach regulation skills and coping tools

Program Delivery

Child/Adolescent Services

Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center directly provides services to children/adolescents and addresses the following:

• The impacts of trauma, depression/suicide, lived in a situation involving domestic/family violence, and/or experienced commercial sexual exploitation

Adult Services

Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center directly provides services to adults (regardless of whether they are parents or caregivers) and addresses the following:

• Experiencing or has experienced domestic violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, elder abuse, or family violence; trauma, PTSD, fear, anxiety, depression, suicide, substance use/abuse, eating disorders, risky sexual behaviors, physical injuries, medical issues, nightmares, hopelessness, dissociation, numbing, irritability, hypervigilance, etc.

Services Involve Family/Support Structures:

This program involves the family or other support systems in the individual's treatment: When appropriate, YSP’s children’s counselors will include parents/guardians in child/family counseling sessions. YSP serves direct and derivative (i.e., secondary, extended) family members who are also impacted by the violence/trauma experienced.

Recommended Intensity:

Clients use the program’s services and the community partners’ services as needed.

Recommended Duration:

The duration of programming is up to the recipient of the services. The program does not impose limits on services.

Delivery Settings

This program is typically conducted in a(n):

• Community Daily Living Setting
• Community-based Agency / Organization / Provider
• Other
• School Setting (Including: Day Care, Day Treatment Programs, etc.)

Homework

This program does not include a homework component.

Languages

Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center has materials available in a language other than English:

Spanish

For information on which materials are available in this language, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed at the bottom of this page).

Resources Needed to Run Program

The typical resources for implementing the program are:

• Community support from local government, nonprofits, and domestic violence, trafficking, sexual assault, and elder and family violence community agencies
• Space for co-location for onsite partners
• Dedicated YSP team to oversee services and projects
• Dedicated staff from on and offsite community partners

Manuals and Training

Prerequisite/Minimum Provider Qualifications

Expertise and experience in the field of family violence, sexual assault, and trafficking. A team of professionals such as law enforcement, attorneys, social workers, advocates, medical, counselors, chaplains, etc. who are willing to co-locate, collaborate, and provide sensitive, coordinated services.

Manual Information

There is not a manual that describes how to deliver this program.

Training Information

There is training available for this program.

Training Contact:

• Diane Doherty, Executive Director
  Your Safe Place - A Family Justice Center
  infoysp@sandiego.gov
  phone: (619) 533-6000

Training Type/Location:

• Onsite
• Regional
• National
• International

Number of days/hours:

The length of training varies depending on the needs of the community or center that requests training.

Relevant Published, Peer-Reviewed Research

Currently, there are no published, peer-reviewed research studies for Your Safe Place (YSP) – A Family Justice Center.

Additional References