American Family Center

Escaping an abusive relationship can be both essential and perilous. It’s complicated. It’s traumatic. It takes courage and requires support. That’s where our mission began almost 30 years ago (1993) and continues today.

American Family Center Inc (IRS EIN# 20-1156838) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to assisting intimate partner and domestic violence victims and survivors, while also pioneering new and innovative prevention and awareness programs with local and national reach.

Our method is to follow the facts, find problem areas and engage with social media awareness campaigns that reveal the dynamics of control, power and coercion where it can make a difference.

To this end, our programs and activities include the following:

Choices Interactive

Wednesday's Woman Dine & Donate/Closet

Operation/RECONNECT
Awareness & Advocacy
Trends & Analytics  

Our endeavor is both worthy and in need of ongoing support. We would be honored and privileged if you would join us in this pursuit.  

With grateful appreciation,
American Family Center

DV Prevention is about Choices

Domestic violence behaviors often involve the dynamics of power, coercion and control. Self awareness of those dynamics can help influence, instruct and potentially reduce those behaviors.

Choices > Interactive is our 30-second interactive snippet-series that portrays potential DV situations with a unique feature called "branching". Branching offers the viewer the choice to follow their own path based on the options (behaviors) offered to them. When the choice is made the snippet plays out accordingly.

Relatable and engaging, these teachable snippets appear in the social media feeds of the target audience. Currently, we are creating content targeting the demographics of high-incidence DV profiles including: Spousal and Intimate Partner, Adult, Youth, Teen Dating and Cultural Backgrounds. 

Not surprisingly, this effort requires producers, directors, writers, casting, IT infrastructure, social media buyers, pre-and-post analytics, and much more! If you are able to help with some of the heavy-lifting, please consider making a donation below.

“Wednesday’s Woman” is our community program in support of every woman who has ever been abused by an intimate or domestic partner. It creates an easy way to support victims and survivors at the local level, in partnership with restaurants and patrons, by participating in our “Dine & Donate” program. This program supplies our "Wednesday Woman's Closet" with clothing, cellphones, home goods etc., for those moving from secure-shelter to independent living.

Operation/RECONNECT is designed to bolster support for domestic abuse victims and survivors by helping them acquire the necessary technologies needed to reach out for critical support services and stay connected to their worlds, including: 

Family

Friends

Employer

Psychologist 

Social Worker

Law Enforcement

Legal and

Medical

Starting over is never easy and having access to the basic homegoods makes moving from secured-shelter to independent living a little less stressful. Our inventory includes: clothing, furniture, lighting, appliances, computers and more. Purchases from, and donations to the American Family Thrift Shop  all help make this valuable inventory available for those in need.

If you would like to help by making a tax-deductible donation to our inventory, please contact us!

AFC social awareness activities include creating and promoting awareness for several other cause-related campaigns including:

Signal for Help

Angel Shots Assistance

Child Abuse

Spousal Abuse and

Elder Abuse campaigns

Our legislative agenda is focused on securing funding for domestic violence prevention programs while advocating funding for ongoing programs that support victims and survivors of domestic violence and abuse.

In Massachusetts, domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another, or against a spouse, child or elder. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, threats, emotional and other forms of intimidation and abuse. The frequency and severity of domestic violence can vary dramatically.

While an individual instance of domestic violence is unacceptable, when you aggregate each instance statewide the statistics in Massachusetts are staggering.