Violence Free Families

Violence Free Families (VFF), a coalition of Community Partnership for well over 15 years, works to prevent, reduce, and treat family violence through effective use of community resources. With a membership of over 35 representative organizations, agencies, and individuals, this group plans and executes community initiatives that identify community needs and ensures the availability and accessibility of a network of interventions that provide safety, healing, treatment, education and support for victims, both adult and children, of Domestic Violence. Services for perpetrators, both voluntary and mandated, are also available through the coalition. The group focuses on utilizing the full range of the criminal justice system and holding abusers accountable.

Members include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Alternative Opportunities
  • Children's Division
  • Family Violence Center
  • Greene County Prosecutors Office
  • Greene County Health Department
  • Hit No More
  • Southwest Missouri Legal Aid, Probation and Parole
  • Victims Center

For more information, or to become a coalition member, contact Sylvia Persky, Associate Director of Community Partnership, at 888-2020.

Current Initiatives:

  • Greene County Foster Parent Appreciation Event
  • "In Her Shoes" - an interactive domestic violence awareness activity
  • "Romeo or Ripper" - an interactive teen relationship activity
  • CAPP - Cycle of Addiction Prevention Program for children of alcoholics
  • "Ambassadors for Children" – helping to link faith and civic organizations to increase resources for caseworkers working with abused and neglected children
  • Production of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse and Neglect PSA's

Committees of VFF

  • Child Abuse and Neglect (CAN)—Targeting strategies to reduce and eliminate the abuse and neglect of children
  • Workplace—Targeting employers and policies to help victims of abuse succeed in the workplace
  • Education and Training—Providing professional development for those working in the field of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse
  • Treatment for Offenders—Providing treatment, counseling and educational services for perpetrators of domestic violence

Related Websites

www.childwelfare.gov
www.preventchildabuse.org
www.mocadsv.org