Our Services
Operational Structure:
Office Location and Launch 🏠
We are actively seeking to secure funding, partnerships, and an affordable, accessible office space in Boston or the surrounding areas.
Our goal is to find a location within the diverse, inclusive communities we serve in Massachusetts, ensuring clients have a safe, welcoming, and supportive space to access our programs and services.
We plan to officially open our doors (TBD) once we secure the necessary funding and seed money to launch SIS.
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SIS will operate Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM.
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This schedule respects staff and community time for worship services and personal wellness.
Year 1 Initiatives:
In our first year, we're focusing on establishing core capacity building:
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Key Staffing: Having a full-time Executive Director and a full-time Case Manager to coordinate all services.
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Service Reach: Providing comprehensive services—including prevention, intervention, advocacy, and virtual support groups/workshops—for 10-20 clients as we develop and grow.
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Target Population:
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Supporting survivors of all identities and backgrounds. We center our work on underserved, marginalized, and low-income populations to ensure equitable access to empowerment, healing, and self-sufficiency; ultimately guiding survivors to a place of independence, safety where they can thrive and our services are no longer needed.
Program Evaluation:
Our approach to improvement is built on staying accountable and measuring our real-world impact:
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Honest Assessment: We regularly step back to look at our strengths, where we can grow, and the new ways we can better serve our community.
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Listening to Survivors: We use direct feedback and surveys to ensure our programs are truly meeting the needs of those we serve.
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Commitment to Quality & compassionate care: This ongoing process ensures our work remains relevant, efficient, and most importantly effective in changing lives.
Startup Services:
Education and Prevention:
Workshops and community outreach events that raise awareness and seek to prevent family violence.
(SIS) focuses on a client-centered, rapid-response approach to prevent further Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and support survivors by seeking to remove barriers to safety and well-being; clients do not need a restraining order to access services.
Our Key Services: Education & Prevention - We will offer free bi-weekly online support groups and community workshops focused on identifying signs of abuse, self-care, fostering healthy relationship dynamics, mental health and addressing teen dating violence.
Offender Accountability: We coordinate intervention programs that prioritize behavior change and accountability to break the cycle of abuse, with a specific focus on marginalized communities.
Survivor Empowerment: We help survivors navigate complex systems to access essential resources, rebuild their lives, and maintain their safety, and independence, so they no longer need our services.
Cycle Breaking: We provide gender-inclusive resources and support groups designed to help individuals and families end generational cycle- patterns of violence
Our Approach (Years 1–3)
We simplify the path to healing and meet survivors wherever they are in their journey. By working with survivors and partner organizations, we create safe spaces where help is not an afterthought or a privilege for some, but is offered to anyone in need of service.
Streamlined Access: Clients can access timely support without the burden of repeating their story to multiple agencies.
Inclusive Care: We provide compassionate outreach free from judgment, stigma, or societal stereotypes.
The Goal: Our mission is to equip survivors and families with the tools to transform trauma into resilience. We strive for a future where our clients are self-sufficient and the cycle of IPV is broken for the next generation.
In the context of intimate partner violence (IPV), gender-inclusive resources are services and materials designed to be accessible and effective for everyone, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
Intervention Support Services Coordination:
Our coordinated support services include:
We provide guidance on available domestic violence resources and offer emotional support to help individuals make informed decisions based on their unique circumstances.
Personalized Safety Planning:
We work with survivors to create practical, individualized safety plans designed to reduce risk and prioritize the well-being of individuals and their families.
Housing Navigation Support:
We assist in identifying and connecting survivors to stable, affordable housing options, including emergency shelter and transitional housing programs, based on availability.
Crisis Intervention & Immediate Support:
We help connect individuals to urgent services such as 24/7 hotlines, and counseling to ensure timely and appropriate support during crises.
Community Referrals & Advocacy Connections;
We connect survivors to trusted community centers that provide advocacy, family support services, and resources for children, helping to strengthen long-term stability.
️Our Commitment to You:
At SIS, our role is to guide, support, and connect. While we do not directly provide shelter, housing, relocation, financial assistance, or legal services, we will work closely with local and statewide resources to help you access the support you need.
You are not alone. There is hope, and there is a path forward.
By providing these essential services, we uplift survivors to rebuild their lives and move forward towards healing and well-being.
Full Disclosure & Legal Disclaimer;
Scars Into Stars, Inc. (SIS) provides information, guidance, and referral services to individuals and families seeking support.
SIS does not provide direct housing, financial assistance, legal services, or clinical care.
SIS does not guarantee service availability, eligibility, access to resources, or outcomes.
All information and referrals are provided in good faith; however, SIS makes no promises or warranties, express or implied, regarding the quality, availability, or effectiveness of any services provided by third-party organizations. networks---Services providers.
All decisions regarding participation in services, eligibility, acceptance, and the scope of care are made solely by the client and the respective service providers. SIS does not control, manage, or assume responsibility for the actions, decisions, or services of external agencies.
By engaging with Scars Into Stars, Inc. (SIS), all individuals (clients) and network entities (including, but not limited to, partners, affiliates, consultants, and vendors) acknowledge and agree that SIS operates solely in a coordination and support capacity and assumes no liability for outcomes, service limitations, or any decisions made by clients or third-party providers.
Basic Needs:
Meeting basic needs is a crucial step toward regaining control and well-being.
Scars Into Stars offers a pathway to help find and coordinate essential resources such as:
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Food
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Furniture
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Clothing
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Mental and Physical Wellness Workshops and Classes.
Our support extends beyond immediate necessities, encompassing information and assistance to empower survivors on their path to recovery.
By addressing these fundamental needs, we strive to create a culture of healing and rebuilding that:
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Does not retraumatize clients
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Empowers clients to make critical decisions about their future
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Prioritizes client goals, concerns, and values
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Treats each individual with empathy, integrity, respect, transparency, accountability, and mindfulness
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Acts in the best interest of the client, not SIS or other agencies providing direct services to our clients.
As a survivor-founded organization, we understand the need to go beyond traditional support. We aim to:
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Offer more than just phone numbers and referrals or advising survivors to simply get restraining orders and file police reports. We'll create policies and procedures that are not punitive or demeaning, and that are culturally sensitive and mindful of the conscious and unconscious biases that many survivors, low-income individuals, and people of color face when seeking help, support, and protection.
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Reduce retraumatization: Minimize the need for survivors to retell their stories multiple times.
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Facilitate timely access to resources: Help survivors access help and opportunities when they need them most.
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Empower survivors: Equip survivors with the tools and knowledge to rebuild their lives.
Emergency Housing search assistance
At Scars Into Stars, Inc., we are committed to supporting our clients and their families by helping them find safe, affordable housing options, whether temporary or permanent. We will work to connect survivors and their families with available emergency or affordable permanent housing whenever relocation is necessary due to immediate or imminent danger or homelessness.
While we cannot guarantee immediate placement for all clients, our dedicated program strives to provide support and advocacy to help them transition to a stable, safe environment during this critical time.
We are committed to helping survivors on their journey to empowerment, hope, and recovery.
Note: Scars into Stars does not provide direct shelter placement. However, we will coordinate temporary emergency placement for clients in need of housing assistance who may be facing homelessness or are homeless and in immediate danger.
Victim Advocacy- Adult
Provision of information, support, safety planning, assistance with accessing resources, protection orders, system navigation
Victim and Family Advocacy
Service Coordination with Community Partners: Providing information, safety planning, and direct assistance with accessing essential resources and legal protection through the court system and law enforcement agencies when necessary.
Referrals
Scars Into Stars assists victims and survivors by connecting them with essential services.
Connection With Resources
Connection with resources to supply food, shelter and clothing.
Workshops and Community Outreach Events
Workshops and community outreach events that raise awareness and aim to prevent family violence. Provision of information, support, safety planning, assistance with accessing resources, protection orders, system navigation.
To inquire about our domestic violence services Connect With Us!
Upcoming Events
"Love Is Never Abuse"Sat, Oct 11American Legion Post #24
Goals
Decrease the waiting period for clients to access services on a community-based level.
Provide a safe, supportive environment for victims and survivors to seek help without needing court protection/restraining orders.
Increase and improve communication, trust and accountability amongst agencies serving culturally diverse communities of color and underserved populations.
Reduce domestic violence abuse, physical injury, loss of life and children being placed in foster care systems or under department of children and family system.
Reduce the number of victims that become homeless due to IPV, including child witnesses and family separation – particularly amongst families of color, and low-income underserved populations.