Communities of faith and their leaders have the potential to play a significant role in helping to prevent and eliminate family violence. Envisioning a city where safe families and peaceful communities can flourish, CONNECT Faith is committed to working in collaboration with New York City’s diverse faith communities to create and strengthen their response to gender and family violence. Make your community a sanctuary of safety, justice and healing for all!
The monthly Interfaith Theological Roundtable is an ongoing supportive, educational and healing space to discuss challenges of intervention and prevention in a faith-based context. It meets every third Thursday of the month. All are welcome.
CONNECT also hosted the Ending Child Sexual Abuse (ECSA) Faith Collaborative and completed “Safe Faith Communities,” an 11-month process that focused on policy development, training, education and utilizing resources to become a proactive faith community that prevents child sexual abuse. CONNECT ECSA’s learnings are gathered in the document “Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Blueprint for Churches”.
- Customized training programs for clergy, seminarians, members of faith-based communities and lay leaders.
- Assistance in developing religious and culturally relevant programs and policies to respond effectively to domestic violence.
- Training for secular advocates and agencies in effective ways of addressing a client’s religious and spiritual concerns.
Referrals for faith-based counseling for victims, survivors, perpetrators and bystanders.
Read about our work in The Huffington Post and The Pluralism