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 in 2026 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:
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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 support groups/workshops—for 10-20 clients as we develop and grow.
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Target Population: Prioritizing support for underserved communities of color and low-income populations to foster self-sufficiency and empowerment.
Program Evaluation:
Our program evaluation is designed to ensure quality and demonstrate impact:
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We will monitor progress and conduct a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats).
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We will also implement a client survey to measure program effectiveness and client satisfaction.
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This entire process demonstrates the program's impact, relevance, efficiency, and adherence to quality standards.
Startup Services
Education and Prevention Services:
Workshops and community outreach events that raise awareness and seek to prevent family violence.
SIS: Education, Prevention, and Support Services.
SIS uses a multifaceted, client-centered rapid response approach to prevent Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and support survivors. Crucially, clients don't need a restraining order to access our services.
Key service: Education & Prevention:
We host by- weekly online support group & workshops and community outreach to raise awareness of abuse signs, healthy/unhealthy relationships, and teen dating violence.
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Offender: Accountability: We coordinate Intervention Programs for Abusers/Offenders focused on behavior change, accountability, and breaking the cycle of abuse, especially within marginalized communities.
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Survivor: Empowerment: We help survivors navigate support systems to access essential resources, rebuild their lives, and move forward, free from abuse.
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Resource & Support: We offer resources, workshops, and support groups for individuals in abusive situations and for survivors of all genders to become cycle breakers in their own lives, families, and communities.
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Healthy Relationships: We promote nurturing relationship dynamics at all ages.
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Our Approach (Years 1-3) We collaborate with survivors and organizations to create safe spaces and support networks. We meet clients where they are, offering compassionate care and outreach.
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We simplify the process so clients can seek help immediately without the complicated burden of telling their story repeatedly across multiple agencies or calling multiple numbers to access timely support.
We also ensure clients can seek help without fear of judgment, stigma, stereotyping, or the negative beliefs attached to survivors, families, and offenders in society.
Our ultimate goal is to break the cycle of IPV by giving survivors and families the tools they need to transform their experiences and pain into strength and resiliency, stopping abusive cycles and patterns from passing from one generation to the next, where our clients are self-sufficient and have fully overcome their need for our services.
Intervention Support Services Coordination:
We provide
comprehensive support services to victims of domestic violence and their families. We offer:
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Information and Support: We provide information about domestic violence, legal rights, and available resources. We also offer emotional support and guidance to help individuals navigate their situation.
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Safety Planning: We assist individuals in developing personalized safety plans to protect themselves and their families from harm.
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Housing Assistance: We help victims access temporary housing options, such as emergency housing or transitional housing programs.
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Crisis Intervention: We connect victims with immediate crisis intervention services, such as hotlines, counseling, and medical care.
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Community Referrals: We connect victims with organizations that can provide legal advice and support, as well as services for children and families.
By providing these essential services, we empower survivors to rebuild their lives and move forward towards healing and well-being.
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
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Financial Literacy Education
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Support for Children and Young Survivors Who Witnessed Domestic Violence.
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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Provide comprehensive support: 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.