Our Mission Statement
Our mission here at the Crisis Center Foundation is to create a violence-free community by meeting the needs of victims/survivors with an informed, compassionate, and victim-centered response and by nurturing and sustaining collaborations among the community to ensure victims' dignity, rights, and safety. If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, our staff is here and ready to help however we can. Please call us on our 24-hour hotline today at 217-243-4357 and speak with one of our trained staff members. Located in Jacksonville, IL, and servicing Morgan, Scott, Cass, and Greene County.
Our Guiding Principles
Employees, administration, and the Board of Directors of the Crisis Center Foundation will demonstrate commitment to the following guiding principles in philosophy and service delivery to victims of domestic violence:
- Domestic violence is a crime of power and control. All persons are potential victims, but most often are women and children.
- Domestic violence negatively impacts all who experience and/or witness it, diminishing the community's quality of life.
- Domestic violence is abuse and unjustifiable.
- Each person has responsibility for their own behavior. Victims do not cause the abuse.
- Each person has the right to the information, support, and services necessary to become safe.
- Children from violent homes are at risk. Violent behavior is a learned response and is often passed down from generation to generation.
At our organization, we help victims of domestic violence regain or develop the skills needed to live without further abuse. We believe that using violence to control or manipulate behaviors is ineffective, extremely harmful, and could be life-threatening. We believe everyone is entitled to a life free from fear, violence, and harm. This includes being free from isolation, intimation, threats, emotional, economic, sexual, and physical abuse, as well as using children as pawns to control or manipulate a victim. We believe those using these tactics should be held accountable for their actions.
The Center provides services in an inclusive, safe, supportive, violence-free environment where individuals are empowered to make their own decisions and choices. All services are self-determined and trauma-informed. Services include a 24-hr crisis hotline, emergency shelter, counseling, legal advocacy, general advocacy, children's services, community education, and prevention. The Center enjoys a great deal of support from the communities it serves and has numerous networking agreements with other providers. Representatives of the Center participate in various multidisciplinary coalitions, groups, and committees. Advocates frequently present to various community organizations to educate the community and raise awareness. Advocates Co-Chair the Morgan County Family Violence Council and participate in the Greene County Family Violence Council.