Center-based Services

Crisis intervention: Provided on the phone or in person, our domestic violence advocates assist you with information and the support you ask for.

Safety planning: Discuss what the safest options are for your situation.

Assistance with shelter placement: Emergency shelter for victims within our network of confidential safe homes and/or assistance with long-term placement

Support groups: Educational and empowerment groups for victims.

Individual/Group/Family: Substance abuse and referral services for victims, including trauma, depression, and anxiety. Trained staff and volunteers are available to listen and to provide information and safety options.

Older Women: Women age 55 and older are provided with domestic violence counseling, advocacy, and information, in addition to related supportive services.

Dept. of Public Health guidelines dictate batterers attend an intervention program for at least 80-hours. Diamond Life will be offering two-hour groups that meet weekly for 40 consecutive weeks. The program will be for both male and female perpetrators. We are presently in the process of preparing all the necessary paperwork to get approval to proceed with this program. Please call for further information.   

Navigating through the courts is an often bewildering process. Advocates will help clients at Polk county District Courts. They help clients with the 209A process, in addition to the Harassment Prevention Order (258E), passed last year in Massachusetts, which provides victims relief against stalking, sexual assault, and criminal harassment.

The Abuse Prevention Law (209A) is for domestic violence victims. One of the requirements to filing is a relationship must exist between family or household members. A victim of sexual assault by someone with whom no previous relationship exists can seek a 258E harassment order.

Intervention and prevention education and workshops will be provided to all interested community groups (i.e. civic, religious, business ,and school). We also bring the White Ribbon Campaign into area schools. The White Ribbon Campaign is an initiative that encourages men to become outspoken advocates against violence against women.

As dating violence is a very real issue teens are grappling with, the White Ribbon Campaign is an effective tool in educating young people about dating and domestic violence.

Diamond LIfe Women's Resource Center will work with our community partners to educate people about domestic violence, in addition to preventing its occurrence in the first place. Partners include local police departments, area schools, local Council on Aging centers, the Department of Children & Families, Department of Transitional Assistance, DA's Office, Sheriff's Department, County Risk Assessment Team, the United Way , faith-based entities, and other interested groups.

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