Our Programs & Services

Our Programs & Services

Since its inception in 1978, ADV has developed an array of services to intervene in and prevent physical and emotional violence in the home and the community.

ADV is recognized statewide as a leader in progressive approaches to empowerment and advocacy for clients seeking to establish a healthy, violence-free environment in which to raise the next generation.

Each of ADV’s programs and services is culturally appropriate and is provided to all families, regardless of their ethnic or religious background or cultural orientation.

If you are in immediate danger: CALL 911

If you need help, CALL ADV’s
24-hour Crisis Lines:

Outreach

ADV operates outreach services throughout Riverside County.

The outreach program is a vital component in a comprehensive service system for victims of domestic violence, especially for those who still live with their abusers and for those who have left the relationship but who can benefit from counseling, support, and advocacy services. Post-shelter follow-up services can enhance the probability of a victim’s successful transition to a violence-free lifestyle.

By assisting victims earlier in the cycle of violence, outreach services can reduce the need for more shelter services and stimulate long-term benefits for victims and their children. With an early intervention/prevention focus, outreach services delivered in local communities offer a cost-effective and less disruptive alternative to serving the high percentage of domestic violence victims who are not currently in imminent physical danger, and who seek support in reducing or eliminating the abuse in their lives.

Through the outreach program, domestic violence advocates provide comprehensive services to victims in offices near them. Services are provided free of charge to domestic violence victims.

The primary goals of ADV’s Outreach program are to:

Ensure a victim’s safety
Help victims understand the dynamics of domestic violence (concepts such as the “cycle of violence” and “power and control”)
Assist victims in identifying and dealing with their feelings by exploring available options to help them improve their situation
Provide practical information regarding resources
Support and promote a victim’s ability to make their own choices

Services include:

- Safety assessment and planning, including helping the victim
develop their own safety plan
- Comprehensive case management
- Individual and group paraprofessional counseling
- Individual, family and group counseling
- Referrals to medical and social services
- Referrals and advocacy in obtaining housing resources,
including relocation assistance and emergency shelter
- Assistance in completing a Restraining Orders
- Court accompaniment
- Life skills training (financial planning, anger management,
coping with stress and other topics)

Clients who receive outreach services always have access to the emergency shelter if it is determined they meet the eligibility criteria for emergency and/or transitional shelter.

Anger Management

ADV formed a unique partnership with Riverside County Child Protective Services in 2003 to begin providing anger management treatment for perpetrators of domestic violence who are referred by CPS because they are at risk of losing custody of their children.

The program has expanded to include perpetrators of domestic violence who are ordered by the courts to receive treatment. The program also welcomes individuals who are not under court order as well. Hemet and Riverside classes are currently provided virtually to accommodate any client’s schedule.  Contact our offices at 951.425.8900 for class schedules.

For more information contact our office at 951.425.8900 or click on Contact Us and complete the on-line registration form and select Anger Management as your subject matter when completing the form online. You may also email the program at: info@alternativestodv.org.

Counseling Services

ADV offers regularly scheduled individual paraprofessional counseling and educational support groups which focus on a variety of topics relevant to the needs of domestic violence victims including: financial planning, self-esteem, dynamics of domestic violence, effects of DV on children, power/control, assertiveness, developing healthy relationships, and parenting skills.

Clinical Therapists treat a full range of mental and emotional disorders. There is a fee for service based on a client’s ability pay.

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