HELP ME DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROGRAM/ AYUDAME PROGRAMA DE VIOLENCIA DOMESTICA

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Office Hours/Horas de Oficina:

Monday-Friday/Lunes-Viernes

9am-5pm

Contact/Contacto:

Lisy Delaroca, Case Manager

(401) 728-5920 Ext.129

(401) 365-4010

ldelaroca@progresolatino.org

The AYUDAME Domestic Violence Program provides services to Latinx victims of domestic violence, in particular newly arrived immigrants with limited English proficiency.

AYUDAME Programa de Violencia Domestica proporciona servicios a las victimas latinos de violencia doméstica, en particular a los inmigrantes recién llegados con dominio limitado de Ingles.

  • Education/Educación

  • Case Management/Manejo de Caso

  • Legal Advocacy (restraining order, non-contact order & court accompaniment)/ Abogacía Legal (orden de restricción, orden de no contacto & acompañamiento a la corte)

  • Individual Counseling & Support Groups/Consejería Individual & Grupo de Apoyo

  • Financial Literacy/ Educación Financiera

During the pandemic, Dr. Marrs Fuchsel partnered with Progreso Latino's AYUDAME/ Help Me Domestic Violence Program for this important study and interviewed 19 Latina immigrant survivors. Dr. Marrs Fuchsel is a Professor in the Morrison Family College of Health, School of Social Work at the University St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is also Director of the Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) program and she teaches in that program. Dr. Marrs Fuchsel is originally from Lima, Peru and is also a bilingual Spanish-English Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with extensive direct practice experience working with Latinx families across the country. The study with Progreso Latino is part of her research that focuses on the prevention and intervention of intimate partner violence among immigrant Latinas and their families. She is also author of the book titled, Yes, I Can (Sí, Yo Puedo): An Empowerment Program for Immigrant Latina Women in Group Settings published with Oxford University Press. To learn more about her, visit Catherine Luz Marrs Fuchsel, PhD., LICSW, LCSW, MSW.

For more information about the study, please email lmurillo@progresolatino.org

 

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