JWI | Directory of Domestic Violence Resources

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services
120 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019-3371
(212) 582-9100
(212) 397 4250
(888)523-2769-Toll free
admin@jbfcs.org - E-mail

JBFCS has a vast array of services for providers, women, children and batterers. Services include hotlines, information and referral, individual, couples and family counseling, support/self-help groups, shelters, crisis intervention, and legal services. Direct services are offered at the Madeline Borg Community Services (MBCS) offices throughout Manhattan.

Madeline Borg Community Services Branches

Manhattan West MBCS Office
(212) 397-4250

MBCS Riverdale Office
(718) 549-6900

Manhattan North MBCS Office
(212) 795-9888

MBCS Pelham Office
(718) 882-5000

Family Violence Support and Prevention Services

�migr� Domestic Violence Outreach Program
2020 Coney Island Avenue
New York, NY 11223
(718) 676-4210
(718) 676-4216 - Fax

The �migr� Program primarily and education and outreach program provides information and referral, counseling, support group, consultation and crisis intervention. Additionally, the Program has a perpetrators program. The program is targeted to the population from the former Soviet Union. Russian language services are conducted.

Family Violence Hotline
(718) 237-1337 - 24-hour hotline

The Family Violence Hotline is an information and referral hotline for victims and perpetrators of family violence. The hotline provides comprehensive information on all programs conducted by the JBFCS.

Family Violence Prevention Center
(212) 866-1003
Janet Geller, Director

The Prevention Center primarily provides training and outreach in-house and on-site. The Center refers to a range of services, including a telephone hotline, educational information, crisis intervention, and counseling services to battered women and children and their batterers. Additional counseling and other assistance to victims and family members struggling with the many common problems associated with sexual assault.

Jewish Support Network
1273 53rd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(718) 435-5700
(718) 854-5495 - Fax

The Jewish Support Network is very specialized to the Jewish community and can cater to the Orthodox community. Community education and outreach including consultation for rabbis, teachers, mental health professionals and communal leaders are available.

Shelters

Genesis
P.O. Box 594; Mid-town Station
New York, NY 10018
(212) 714-2225
(212) 304-1430 - 24-hour hotline
(212) 971-6041 - Fax

Genesis shelter provides day care, counseling for women and children as well as crisis intervention; individual; group; family therapy; legal and entitlements advocacy and independent living skills.

Horizons
PO Box 06280
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(212) 262-7655 - 24-hour hotline
(718) 455-3645 - Fax

Horizon is a shelter which also provides childcare and counseling.

Transition Center
PO Box 629
Queens, NY 11691
(718) 327-7660
(718) 520-8045 - 24-hour hotline
(718) 327-4230 - Fax

The Transition Center is a shelter providing day care and counseling for women and children. Other services include crisis intervention, afterschool programs, family therapy, independent skills training, Kosher options. There are 14 apartment sites.

Education and Outreach Networks

Domestic Violence Coordination and Training (DVCAT)
750 Astor Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467
(718) 882-5000
(718) 798-7633 - Fax

DVCAT provides services in the BRONX only. They offer outreach and educational workshops to community groups, educational institutions and religious organizations; professional training services to various health care and social service providers; and a referral network for victims of domestic violence.

Be'ad HaYeled (For the Sake of the Child)
PO Box 176
Roslyn, NY 11576
(516) 621-0552-Phone
(718) 854-5495 - Fax
caps4kids@aol.com-e-mail

Be'ad Ha Yeled's focus is children. They provide consultation to school personnel, education and training to rabbis, teachers, parents, and communal professionals in recognizing the signs of abuse and neglect, intervening on behalf of the children, preventing other cases from occurring, and supporting distressed families.

Legal Advocacy

Advocacy for Battered Women Court Services

Manhattan Family Court
60 Lafayette Street, Room 4B
New York, NY 10013
(212) 577-1270

Bronx Family Court
900 Sheridan Avenue, Room F12
Bronx, NY 10451
(718) 590-2396

The Advocacy for Battered Women Court Services has two branches, in Manhattan and the Bronx Family Court Services. Services include information and assistance to women seeking orders of protection about court procedures and a Supervised Visitation Program. This program provides a safe, secure setting in the Family Court where a noncustodial parent may visit with their child under professional supervision.

Shalom Task Force
PO Box 137
Bowling Green Station
New York, NY 10274-0137
(888) 883-2323 - hotline - (outside New York)
(718) 337-3700 - hotline - (inside New York)

(212) 742-1478-General Information

The Shalom Task Force is national Jewish hotline providing information and referral for rabbinic consultation, psychological, financial and legal services. The Task Force also conducts education and outreach, provides technical assistance and a speakers bureau. The Task Force is endorsed by endorsed by Orthodox Rabbis.

F·E·G·S Queens Division
Family Violence Counseling Services
(718) 327-1600, x229 - Far Rockaway
(718) 896-9090, x267 - Rego Park

Professionally licensed clinicians provide individual and group treatment for persons affected by family violence at two sites in Queens. Services are available to children, adolescents and adults. Additionally, Russian and Spanish counselors are at the Rego Park location. Licensed psychiatrists provide medication therapy as needed.

F·E·G·S Long Island Division
Family Violence Unit
(516) 496-7550
(516) 485-5710 - Direct Services

Through FEGS/Long Island Division's five New York State Licensed behavioral health centers across Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Family Violence Clinical Specialists provide individual, group and family counseling to clients coping with past or current abuse. Licensed psychiatrists provide psychiatric evaluation and medication management.

Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Services
(516) 485-5710
Community education and support services to battered women, and specialized counseling services to children who have been sexually abused and for batterers. Services are also available to survivors of sex abuse who may experience anxiety and depression.

F·E·G·S Specialized Youth Services
(516) 496-7550

Violence prevention/reduction education, training and counseling to elementary through high school students and families, teachers and administrators. A semester long Internet counseling program is available.