Services
Safe Housing
Counseling & Support Services
Children & Teen Programs
Legal Advocacy
Prevention & Education
Safe Housing
NIVPC provides 30 day emergency housing to women and children in imminent danger. Our shelter is a 4 BD/3BA house with a large family area, back yard, and full kitchen. The shelter can accommodate up to 21 people. In order to plan for a future free from violence, NIVPC provides food, day to day living essentials, counseling and support groups, and provides resources for housing assistance, life skills and parenting courses, childcare, employment and medical aid.
Safe Haven 4 Pets is specifically for our shelter clients. Statistics indicate that in many cases of domestic violence, abuse to animals was present in the home/abuser. Shelter for pets eliminates a barrier for fleeing victims by allowing them to bring pets with them to a safe shelter.
Safe Haven 4 Pets is available through a partnership formed between the North Idaho Violence Prevention Center (NIVPC) and the Kootenai Humane Society.
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Counseling & Support Services
Although everybody grieves and experiences emotional pain in very individual ways, when we come together to share our experiences, we see that there are many similarities too. Support groups can help you find strength and support in those similarities. Individual Sexual and/or Domestic Violence crisis counseling is available by appointment with trained certified counselors. Crisis counseling consists of approximately 6-8 sessions that are provided at no cost to the client.
Support Groups – providing safety, education and empowerment
Women’s Domestic Violence Support Group
Monday, 7-9P
Women’s Sexual Assault Support Group (Primary Survivors)
Monday, 6-7:30P
Women’s/Men’s Sexual Assault Support Group (Secondary Survivors)
Thursday, 5:30-7:30P
For more information on these support groups, please call 664-9303.
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Children & Teen Programs
Soroptimist Children's Center
The Soroptimist Children's Center provides counseling for children who have witnessed or been victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault, including immediate crisis intervention, safety plans and ongoing counseling.
Services provided include:
Individual counseling
Group counseling
Mother/Child Counseling
Teen Groups
Art/Play Therapy
Positive Parent Modeling
Learn more about Soroptimist International of Coeur d’Alene
http://soroptimistcda.org/about.html
Project Safe Place
Project Safe Place recognizes and has firsthand experience with the needs of youth in Kootenai County and partners with North Idaho Violence Prevention Center in providing education and services to the youth it serves in Kootenai County. Project Safe Place provides a comprehensive continuum of support services and case management to empower youth who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence and/or sexual assault.
These activities include group and individual counseling; presentations on Teen Dating Violence and related presentations; and working to shelter youth from domestic violence, dating violence and/or sexual assault situations. Project Safe Place also provides case management to families in need of some additional support, as well as, works to connect them with long term service providers.
The program is also able to provide financial assistance to youth for them to obtain needed identification for employment, certification classes such as lifeguarding, and KROC center memberships so that they can make healthy recreation choices on days that Project Safe Place is unavailable for Drop In services. As a program, Project Safe Place also assists families through providing a food pantry, three hot meals a week, access to a clothing closet, and personal hygiene items.
Learn more about Project Safe Place
http://www.voaspokane.org/safeplace
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Legal Advocacy
NIVPC Court Program assists clientele through the judicial process, whether one is going through a criminal or civil action related to abuse. The advocates that work within the court program strive to empower those who come through the department for assistance to live healthier, safer lives.
Services include:
- Escort individuals with court appearances
- Assistance with protection orders
- Coordinate with law enforcement, prosecutors and other social service agencies
- Provide legal referrals with both private attorneys and Idaho Legal Aid Services
- Counseling referrals both with NIVPC counselors and other local counselors
Please note: Advocates do not provide legal advise
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Prevention & Education
Teen Education & Outreach
North Idaho Violence Prevention Center’s trained presenters use Idaho’s statewide “No Means Know” curriculum, a best practice healthy relationships and teen dating violence curriculum created for middle school and high school students. Topics covered at length depending on the age group and class are Healthy Relationships; Use of Technology & Child Exploitation Law, ie: Sexting, MySpace, IM; Statutory Rape Law; Gender Roles (stereotypes & expectations); Stalking, Types of Abuse; and Rape/Sexual Assault.
Curriculum includes:
Healthy Relationships
-Types of relationships
-Elements of a healthy relationship
-Communication in healthy relationships
-Fighting Fair
Teen Dating Violence
-Know the types of dating violence
-Know the warning signs of an abusive relationship
-Know what to do if you are being abused
-Know how to enhance your safety
-Know how to help if your friend is being abused
-Know how to help if your friend is abusive
-Know where to get help
Sexual Assault
-Sexting
-Idaho Statutory Rape Laws
-What does a perpetrator look like
-Characteristics of a perpetrator
-Factors of sexual victimization
-Effects of sexual assault
-Know where to get help
Support Groups – providing safety, education and empowerment
Teen Support Group
Tuesday, 6-7P
For more information on these support groups, please call 664-9303.
Community Education & Professional Training
North Idaho Violence Prevention Center partners and collaborates with local schools, law enforcement, health care, prosecutors and other domestic violence service providers to provide the most effective presentations for the students. Domestic violence/sexual assault advocates, attorneys, officers and emergency room nurses come in as guest speakers and speak to their area of expertise adding local insight and knowledge, and expertise to the presentations.
NIVPC maintains a collection of resource material on domestic violence, sexual assault and anti-violence issues. Informational lectures, training and films are available to interested individuals and groups (ie. Police, Attorneys, Churches, School, civic or private).
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