services
CUAV’s integrated package of services, advocacy, and community building promotes the health, safety, and esteem of our communities. Through the following services, we provide an important strategic continuum of responses–from prevention to intervention–against the various forms of violence that affect our communities on a daily basis:
- 24-hour Crisis Line: Available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, our Crisis Line is staffed by our diverse volunteers and staff who annually respond to over 1,200 calls from LGBTQQ people in the Bay Area who are being harassed, threatened, attacked, abused, or stalked.
- Domestic Violence Outreach and Education Program: Program staff regularly conduct trainings for direct service providers, government agencies, and community groups to improve their responses to LGBTQQ domestic violence.
- Domestic Violence Survivor Program: Program staff respond to approximately 400 LGBTQQ survivors of domestic violence each year through restraining order assistance, case management, court accompaniment, emergency shelter assistance, in-person counseling, and advocacy.
- Hate Violence Survivor Program: Program staff offer case management and peer-based counseling to approximately 400 LGBTQQ survivors of hate violence each year. We provide referrals to health services, safety planning assistance, criminal justice system advocacy, and other support services.
- Love & Justice Program: L&J is a program designed for LGBTQQ youth, ages 25 and under. It is an outreach and training project that organizes peer-based trainings for youth and youth services in the Bay Area on how to foster and promote healthy relationships to prevent domestic violence.
- Speakers Bureau: Over 50 LGBTQQ community members volunteer their time each year to reach over 3,500 young people year in Bay Area public schools. By providing a safe, open environment to talk about homo/bi/transphobia, we encourage respectful dialogue to end hate violence. (Additional information for download: program description, program flyer, middle and high school evaluation form, college evaluation form, elementary school evaluation form, Spanish evaluation form, speaker evaluation form, and teacher evaluation form.)