- To stop violence in families
- To end the intergenerational cycle of violence
- To keep families in their homes after tragedy, reduce burden on shelters, reduce houselessness for families
What My Aunties' House Offers
- Structured Rehabilitation that helps participants learn healthy behaviors
- Expert Guidance from a professional team of therapists
- Individualized treatment plans for each unique participant
- Peer support from an engaging community
- Holistic approach that focuses on underlying causes
How My Aunties' House Helps Our Community
- Breaking the Cycle
- Preventing Future Victims
- Strengthening Families
- Supporting Survivors
- Resource Allocation
- Community Safety
- Collaborative Efforts
- Breaking Stereotypes
- Empowering Women
How You Can Get Involved
- Messaging support for the program – “Not in my backyard” concerns from neighbors, local businesses, stakeholders, etc.
- Come to our Ribbon Cutting, Town Halls, and other events.
- Give us an opportunity to train your staff for potential calls of concern.
- Let us present to law enforcement about the benefits and expectations.
- Help us find flexible funding for Room and Board.
- Volunteer to teach a skill to residents.
- Connect our residents with employers who want to work with them.
- Be part of bettering your community
OBJECTIVES
WHY THIS IS NEEDED
- Nearly half of all homicides in Utah happen in families, and we have big families
- High financial cost of violence on tax payers
- This program goes for the roots of family violence
- Domestic Violence is the direct cause of homelessness for many women and children
- The current ways we handle the problem are over extended or not effective
- Victims want to stay in their homes and “just want the violence to stop”.
- Data from the Lethality Assessment Protocol screenings show that out of more than 4,500 victims screened, less than 750 chose to go to an emergency shelter.
THE PROGRAM
- This is the first of its kind in the United States, and the first anywhere outside of Israel.
- Has been called “a reverse DV shelter” program, though it’s more than that, it’s a Whole Family approach.
- 8-10 men per house, estimated 4-6 month stay to establish safety and complete treatment goals.
- Prevents murders and homelessness.
- Focuses on helping aggressive men learn how to be kind partners and fathers.
- Removes the violence from the home so that the family can begin to heal.
- Keeps children in their environment and supports making healthy changes to end violence.
- Empowers the partner to make changes that keep the family in peace.
- Requires men to look after their family obligations, including paying child support, family financial support, and household bills.
- Provides supportive services, safety planning & assessment for the family at home, whether they choose to reunify or end the relationship safely once the aggressive man has completed his intervention goals.
- Works with the community to make us all safer.
- Reduces costs to taxpayers.
- Works with law enforcement, with a receiving center for emergency safety and eligibility assessment.
- Has been proven effective in Israel, since 1996.
CURRENT SUPPORT
- DLHF purchased the house for the pilot program.
- Utah Office for Victims of Crime
- Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice
- Utah Domestic Violence Coalition
- Sego Lily Center for Abused Deaf
- Department of Children and Family Services
- Utah Association for Domestic Violence Treatment
- Utah Domestic Violence Offender Treatment Management Board
NEEDS
- Messaging support for the program – “Not in my backyard” concerns from neighbors, local businesses, stakeholders, etc.
- Your presence at out Ribbon Cutting, Town Halls
- Opportunity to train SLC staff for potential calls of concern
- Opportunity to present to law enforcement about the benefits and expectations
- Flexible funding for Room and Board
- Volunteering to teach a skill
FUNDING
- Private donor has provided a house for the pilot program.
- Cost per residen: approx. $3,650/month, room, board, & intervention programming.
- We have a service funding deficit; insurance will not cover domestic violence offender services.
WHY AMETHYST
- ACH founders, Martha Burkett Fallis & Jana C. Fulmer, worked directly with the Israeli Beit Noam founder, Hannah Rosenberg, to design the program for Utah’s needs.
- Martha and Jana have lived in Utah for over 20 years, and have over 30 years combined experience in the field of Domestic Violence and Trauma.
- Our founders train all over DV therapists in Utah since 2015, if you’ve been trained to work with DV in Utah in the last 9 years, you’ve met us.
- They have strong relationships with stakeholders and partners in the community.
- They serve on the Utah DV Offender Treatment Board, Utah Domestic Violence Coalitions Board of Directors, Utah Association for DV Treatment leadership
- Our board of directors includes researchers, hostage negotiators, law enforcement, advocates, therapists, and professors, specializing in interpersonal violence.
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