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Check here to read the Spring 2008 Shalom Bayit Newsletter

New Peninsula Office Opens

After six years of successful operations based out of our Oakland office (and nine years prior to that with no office at all), Shalom Bayit is pleased to announce the opening of a Peninsula-based satellite office for client services. Thanks to generous donors on the Peninsula, and with additional support from the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, our long time dream of locating services on the Peninsula has become a reality.

While maintaining our main office in Oakland and our satellite services in “borrowed spaces” in San Francisco, Marin, and San Jose, the Peninsula office will provide a stable and confidential location for women on the Peninsula to access Shalom Bayit’s services. Our new Peninsula home will be available for client counseling sessions, community meetings and support groups. The office will help reduce the complex arrangements we make each time our counselor meets with a woman in need of our services, traveling to meet each individual woman for support. We are grateful to many Jewish Community Centers, synagogues and other agencies throughout the Bay Area who provide occasional free meeting space for this purpose, but it is not ideal for providing confidential counseling to victims of abuse. In order to reduce barriers to accessing our services, it was important for us to secure a private location where we can meet with women in need of confidential counseling. The office will also strengthen our Peninsula presence, bringing our programs directly to areas of need.

The office will provide a regular, accessible local meeting location for clients and constituents, and greatly increase our accessibility to battered women on the Peninsula in need of our services. To reach our Peninsula office, call (650) 574-SAFE.

Warm thanks to Steve Kaufman, Holly & Jeff Ullman, Rabbi Marv Goodman, Alternative Telecom & Networks, The Jewish Community Endowment Fund, and our many Peninsula donors who made this dream possible!

Shalom Bayit is Looking for Interns!

Shalom Bayit is currently looking for college-age interns for the spring, summer and fall. Our interns have a hands-on opportunity to make a huge difference in the lives of Jewish youth and the prevention of future domestic violence. Interns serve as our Youth Outreach Educator in our prevention program, Love Shouldn’t Hurt.

Love Shouldn’t Hurt is a teen outreach program providing valuable prevention skills and information about dating violence to Bay Area Jewish youth. Our interactive workshops give 6th grade through college age youth the chance to talk about relationships, both dating and friendships, in an open non-judgmental environment. Internship hours are flexible and workshops led by interns take place in many cities around the Bay Area.

For more information or to apply please email teen@shalom-bayit.org or call (510) 451-8874.

Love Shouldn't Hurt: National Healthy Relationships and Dating Violence Prevention Curriculum

Shalom Bayit is proud to announce the national launch of our teen dating violence prevention curriculum, Love Shouldn’t Hurt, a healthy relationships curriculum for Jewish youth, ages 11-21. The published curriculum, which was released in March at JWI’s third international conference on domestic abuse in the Jewish community, includes a facilitators’ guide, three teen workshop units (middle school, high school, and college), companion workshops for parents, and options for follow-up activities and “stage II” workshops.

From the program’s inception in 2002 through the publication of this curriculum, over 2,000 Jewish youth (plus 400 parents and educators) have participated in Love Shouldn’t Hurt workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, we are pleased to be able to offer this successful healthy relationships curriculum to Jewish communities nationwide.

The curriculum is made possible by generous support from The Hadassah Foundation, Blue Shield of California Foundation, and the Jewish Community Federation and Foundation of the Greater East Bay. We are grateful to them for supporting our vision of giving Jewish youth the tools they need to make healthy relationship choices.

To order Love Shouldn’t Hurt, call (510) 451-8874, e-mail teen@shalom-bayit.org or fill out the order form and mail to:

Shalom Bayit
PO Box 10102
Oakland, CA 94610

Spiritual Support Groups for Battered Women on Both Sides of the Bay

Shalom Bayit continues to offer confidential support groups in San Francisco and the East Bay for women who are currently in an abusive relationship and for those wishing to heal from a past relationship. Healing groups are educational, spiritual and inspirational. Using a peer counseling model, we address such issues as power and control relationships, different forms of abuse, the decision to remain or leave an abusive relationship, building a new violence-free life, and the ways in which Judaism can support the healing process.

Groups are free of charge and childcare is provided with advanced notice.

For dates, location, more information, or to register, please call toll free (866) SHALOM-7

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