House Bill 340 authorizes the creation of Family Justice Centers within Delaware to provide victims of crime with a single source to obtain resources and support services.
A Family Justice Center provides one place for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse to receive the life-saving services currently available in their community from both non-profit and governmental agencies.
The FJC model creates a collaborative family-friendly, victim-centered, trauma-informed, hope-centered environment in which a multi-disciplinary team of professionals works together in one, centralized location to provide coordinated services to victims of family violence.
These Centers co-locate, coordinate, and integrate services so that victims and their children travel to fewer places and tell their stories fewer times. The framework brings the services together for victims and their children, allowing them to go to one place for all their services and creating a community for survivors long after the crisis is over.
The Family Justice Center model is identified as a best practice in the field of domestic violence intervention and prevention services by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.
| House Bill 340 – Creating Family Justice Centers | Currrent Status – House Appropriations 3/21/24 |
| House Sponsors – Griffith, Bolden, Bush, Dorsey Walker, Heffernan, Johnson, Longhurst, Neal, Parker Selby, Phillips, Baumbach, Carson, Chukwuocha, Cooke, Harris, Lambert, Minor-Brown, Moore, Morrison, Osienski, Romer, Schwartzkopf // Hensley, Smith | Senate Sponsors – Gay, Poore, Sturgeon, Hansen, Hoffner, Lockman, Mantzavinos, McBride, Pinkney, Townsend, Walsh // Pettyjohn |
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