• Increase safety, promote healing, and foster empowerment through services for victims and  their children

• Provide victim-centered services that promote victim autonomy

• Commitment to the utilization of culturally competent services approaches that are measurable and behavior based

• Engage all communities through outreach and community education

• Shape services to clients by asking them what they need

• Evaluate and adjust services by including survivor input

• Maintain close working relationships among all collaborators/agencies  (law enforcement, prosecution, community- based domestic violence programs, shelters and other social services)

• Offer survivors a place to belong even after crisis intervention services are no longer necessary

• Integrate primary, secondary and tertiary prevention approaches into all initiatives, programs, and projects

• Develop a Family Justice Center Community that values, affirms, recognizes and supports staff, volunteers, and clients