Project HAVEN

A special project of WCC is Project HAVEN (Hospital Assisted Crisis Intervention for Women Survivors of a Violent Environment). As part of WCC's effort to institutionalize gender sensitive services within the government health care system, it operates and manages Project HAVEN, a hospital-based crisis center and a joint project with the East Avenue Medical Center. This project is for replication nationwide in other hospitals to be known in the future as Women and Children Crisis Care and Protection Unit. Training of hospital staff, medical professionals and caregivers involved in this project were undertaken by WCC. All other services of WCC are also available to Project HAVEN Clients.

 
National Family Violence Prevention Program (NFVPP)

The National Family Violence Prevention Program (NFVPP) is a nationwide two-year campaign project coordinated by WCC in partnership with 17 non-government organizations and government agencies in 17 sites in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The objective of NFVPP is to mobilize these communities to address family violence prevention in a comprehensive and coordinated manner utilizing resources and services of government agencies, non-government organizations currently engaged in the prevention, intervention and elimination of family violence. It therefore seeks to eliminate family violence through concerted efforts to raise public awareness, organizing and social mobilization, and policy advocacy and monitoring.

Part of the NFVPP is Voices of 2001. Breaking the Silence Campaign marked the launching of this project across the nation last November 25, 1997. This entails the collection of 2001 stories of people's experiences of family violence. The stories will be collated and analyzed. The resulting data and information will be used in lobbying for legislations criminalizing domestic violence, violence against women (VAW) and all forms of family violence.

 
Raquel Edralin-Tiglao Institute for Family Violence Prevention (RETIFVP)
 
Women's Crisis Center Manila
2002

 

 

 

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