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

  • 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

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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