Grace Smith House Inc.
Grace Smith House Inc.
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Mission
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About
Grace Smith House has an extensive outreach and community education program. Through our outreach efforts, we partner with and participate in a number of collaborative and coordinated community response projects designed to increase victim safety and maximize offender accountability. Grace Smith House is a significant and active participant in the Dutchess County High Risk Response Team that focuses on various providers working together to reduce risk of lethality on identified domestic violence cases. Community collaboration extends to work on risk assessment and the lethality assessment protocol in the county. In addition, for all victims who need family court services, Grace Smith House has four court advocates housed at Dutchess County Family Court. Two advocates provide advocacy services to all walk-in customers who seek redress through family court. Advocates meet with every individual to assess for the presence of domestic violence, provide risk assessment, engage in safety planning, educate the individual about their rights and options as well as explain how the civil court process works. They assist in completing paperwork and in drafting and entering the petitions for protective orders into the court system. These advocates also will accompany a petitioner to court on the petition if necessary or arrange for other advocates to accompany one into court. Finally, they provide information and referrals to various community service providers that may be of further assistance to the petitioner depending on their particular needs. Grace Smith House also has two court advocates who are responsible for accompanying victims to court, helping them understand the court proceedings, connecting them to legal services, completing various paperwork necessary for filing, advocating with courts, attorneys, and other providers as needed. These two advocates provide information on victim services, victim compensation programs, and advocate with the District Attorney's office when criminal court matters are relevant to the case. When necessary, these advocates have traveled to surrounding counties to support and accompany a victim to court and will provide transportation when a victim is unable to get to court. Finally, they are responsible for linkages to our counseling services and follow-up programs. Our outreach programs also extend to the Dutchess County Child Protective Services unit. Here two employees are embedded in the offices of Child Protective Services as domestic violence liaisons. They serve as a knowledgeable resource to CPS caseworkers regarding issues related to domestic violence. As such, caseworkers who request a consultation are able to access their expertise and assistance in cases where domestic violence is present in the home. Grace Smith House also has a third domestic violence liaison with a similar function with the Center for Child Abuse Prevention/Child Advocacy Center to assist high risk, special needs populations such as teen parents and parents with developmental disabilities with domestic violence advocacy and education. Our outreach programming also includes our Latina Outreach Program that was pioneered by Grace Smith House over twenty-five years ago. The goals of the Latina Outreach Program are to educate the Latina community about domestic violence and services available; to offer Latina victims culturally competent advocacy and counseling in their native language, with an understanding of their culture; and finally to educate and provide advocacy with victim related systems including law enforcement, courts, districts of social services, child protective services, and others as to how to understand and better serve Latina victims. In addition, this position has, through extensive outreach, created a network of service providers who are expert in providing services to Latina victims. Presently, two employees provide services under the Latina Outreach Program. Prevention and Education The Prevention and Education Program focuses on giving young people the tools they need to have healthy relationships and recognize abusive behaviors. The program subcontracts with the Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse to provide the Personal Safety Program in elementary schools. Grace Smith House educators visit middle and high schools, reaching all districts in Dutchess County, with presentations. In middle schools, education focuses on bullying prevention, while in high schools the focus is teen dating violence prevention with topics such as healthy relationships, dating violence, safety planning, and social media safety. Each year, an all-day conference called 'Love Shouldn't Hurt' is held for high school students to further explore the issues around healthy teen dating. A leadership camp, 'Connect for Respect' is held for a week each July for middle school students interested in developing leadership skills. Our Prevention and Education team is also engaged in a healthcare initiative with the focus on reaching local healthcare providers, including nurses, private practice physicians, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, hospitals and emergency room clinicians. In this program we work to educate medical providers in identifying, assessing and learning to effectively and safely screen for the presence of domestic violence. The goal of this outreach program is to assess and link victims to domestic violence services in a safe and confidential manner.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing outlines the non-profit's goal as “See schedule o”.
When explaining its purpose, the activities were outlined as: “See schedule o”.
- As per legal reporting requirements, the state of operation for the non-profit is NY.
- The non-profit's address for 2020 is listed as PO BOX 5205, POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, 12602 in the filing.
- As per the non-profit's form, they have 60 employees as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $360,446.
- The organization has 22 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1981.
- The organization pays $1,605,066 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $57,817 in fundraising expenses.
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