Family Justice Center Hosts Community Reception
January 28, 2012

ROCK SPRINGS -- The Sweetwater County Family Justice Center is hosting a reception open to interested members of the community.

In addition to hearing from county and state leaders from social, legal and law enforcement services, guests will have an opportunity to hear from the founders of the Family Justice Center movement, Casey Gwinn and Gael Strack from the National Family Justice Center Alliance.

Verizon Foundation Awards $80,000 to Alabama Non-profits: Funds to Support Programs Addressing Dating and Domestic Violence Prevention and Victim Services
January 27, 2012

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Verizon Foundation announced earlier today at a press conference that it has awarded $80,000 in grant funding to eight non-profit organizations across Alabama. Seven grants totaling $60,000 will go to support programs across the state that address domestic and dating violence issues among teens and young adults as the culmination of a 2011 Request for Proposals by the Foundation. The Foundation also today presented an additional $20,000 to the One Place Family Justice Center in Montgomery.

Strangulation Law has Big Impact
January 24, 2012

After a year on the books, more than 10,000 people have been arrested under the state's Strangulation Law

The statute began in  November of 2010 and Johnson City Police actually made the state's first Strangulation arrest last January 13th.

Family Justice Center Opens In Rochester Next Month: First of its Kind in the State
January 21, 2012

ROCHESTER — Victims for domestic abuse will soon have a new place to turn to, as a new Family Justice Center will be opening in Rochester next month.

The facility, to be located in the Community Center, will house a multidisciplinary team of professionals who will work together under one roof to provide services to victims of family violence.

Family Justice Center to Give Full Services to Abused Victims
January 19, 2012

MERIDIAN —     Casey Gwinn said the idea of a Family Justice Center is a simple one.

Gwinn said a centralized place where victims of domestic violence, child abuse and other crimes can come and get any type of care, advice and treatment is a simple concept. Getting everyone from a wide assortment of agencies to cooperate with each other is not.

Gwinn, the co-founder and president of the Family Justice Center Alliance from San Diego, California, was on hand Wednesday with Phil Eastman, one of the strategic planners with the FJC at the Wesley House Community Center in Meridian. Gwinn, and specifically Eastman, were taking two days to get the many agencies of the Family Justice Center in Meridian off on the right footing.