Human Options offers a wide variety of counseling and educational programs to help victims and their family members process the effects of domestic violence.

Human Options programs include:

• Crisis intervention counseling
• Support groups
• Legal advocacy
• Personal Empowerment Programs (PEP)
• Children's counseling
• Parent education groups
• Information and referrals

Women's Worth
Women's Worth is an open forum-style support group that allows participants to process in an open discussion issues that they would like to discuss related to domestic violence.

Personal Empowerment Program (PEP)
PEP is an educational group that assists clients in learning more about domestic violence. Topics include issues, such as the causes of domestic violence, and saftey planning that helps the client protect themselves from further violence. PEP can either meet court-mandated requirements and /or expand personal growth education as group members go through assigned readings and their own experience with domestic violence.

Parenting Education Groups
Parent Education Groups are also offered as part of Human Options' services. This is a probation and court approved program. These groups allow parents the opportunity to come together and discuss both family issues they are presently encountering and/or skills that they would like to share or explore with other group members. The classes focus on families where domestic violence has been a problem. It also deals with single parent issues of visitation and safe exchange.

Individual and Family Counseling
Many clients choose to seek out individual or family counseling concurrent with attending such groups as PEP or Women's Worth. The Human Options Community Resource Center provides counseling for its clients who are not only a part of these groups, but for those who are referred to us from outside sources or are self-referred.

Children's Counseling
The Community Resource Center also offers child counseling services for adolescents and child victims of domestic violence. Such techniques as play therapy and other forms of therapeutic activities allow children to process their own feelings related to the violence they have witnessed and/or experienced.

Legal Advocacy
One a month (and on alternating months, twice a month), the Human Options Community Resource Center offers a legal clinic to assist clients in answering questions related to the legal system. There is no charge for this clinic. Call Human Options to schedule an appointment with one of the attorneys who assists Human Options in this endeavor. Our legal advocate will assist clients with obtaining restraining orders and give legal information.

Information and Referrals
Human Options' Community Resource Center offers a variety of information and referrals to help empower our clients and their families. It is our goal to provide clients with resources that will bring out a sense of encouragement and hope in their lives.