Statement Of Core Values

• Safety: we believe in the right to live free from violence and the fear of violence.
• Empowerment and self-determination: We believe in the right to have control over one´s body, mind and spirit.
• Social Change: we believe in the power to affect broad social change through individual and collective action.
• Equality: we believe in the equal political, economic and social rights of all people.
• Respect: we value respect as a guiding principle in all our work.
• Diversity: We believe in the strength of diversity and embrace differences among ourselves and within our communities.
• Survivors´ Healing and Leadership: We affirm the strength, healing capacity and leadership of survivors.
• Confidentiality: We affirm the right of every survivor to confidentiality in their communications with counselors and advocates.
• Perpetrator Accountability: We believe that perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence should be held fully and solely accountable for their actions.
• Systems Accountability: We believe that social systems and institutions should be held accountable for ending the conditions that foster domestic and sexual violence, and to honoring the rights of survivors to justice, safety and healing.
• Unity and Collaboration: We affirm the power of collective and collaborative efforts.
• Growth: We affirm the importance of personal, professional and organizational growth.
• Survivor-centered Services: We believe in the critical importance of a highly effective statewide coordinated network of survivor-centered community-based services for survivors and their children.
• Herstory: We believe in the importance of remembering the herstory of the movements to end battering, rape, and all violence against women.