Transition House.
Biographical notes:
Transition House was founded in 1976 when Cherie Jimenez and Chris Womendez opened their five-room apartment as a refuge for battered women and their children; it was the first shelter of its kind in Massachusetts. It has moved several times and expanded to include volunteers and paid staff offering support for legal, welfare, and housing advocacy, a crisis hotline, and outreach programs. The Dating Violence Intervention Project, initiated in 1986, is a collaboration between Transition House and Emerge, an intervention program for violent and abusive men. In 1992, DVIP collaborated with the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council to develop a pilot program for police officers and educators. Transition House has also worked with Boston and Cambridge public schools to raise consciousness about battering.
From the description of Records, 1975-1983 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122372976
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Subjects:
- Abused women
- African Americans
- African American women
- Children of abused wives
- Demonstrations
- Feminism
- Wife abuse
- Women
- Women political activists
- Women's rights
- Women's shelters
- Working class women
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