Violence Intervention Program, Inc.

VIP's 24-hour live-operated bilingual hotline provide an array of services, including over-the-phone crisis counseling, safety planning, emergency shelter information, and referrals to housing and other community-based social service providers as needed.

Our cultural and bilingual capability eliminates barriers, allowing for greater reach and impact as well as the continued support of the [email protected] community, and of all other communities requiring intimate partner and domestic violence services.

Our emergency shelter, Morivivi, is an option for survivors as they move forward establishing violence-free lives. Families are housed in scattered site apartment for up to 180 days and receive a range of services including individual and group counseling, advocacy, and case management.

Residents of our shelter programs are encouraged to build a sense of community and belonging. They have access to all of our non-residential services during and after their time in shelter. We work with clients to provide economic education and long term management skills that allow them to secure permanent housing, understand their housing rights, maintain a budget, and navigate the tenant-landlord relationship.

At Casa Sandra we provide eligible families coming out of domestic violence shelters up to two years of transitional/supportive housing. Clients are referred via New York City’s network of emergency domestic violence shelter or other community-based organizations.

Residents of our shelter programs are encouraged to build a sense of community and belonging. They have access to all of our non-residential services during and after their time in shelter. We work with clients to provide economic education and long term management skills that allow them to secure permanent housing, understand their housing rights, maintain a budget, and navigate the tenant-landlord relationship.

VIP's three community-based programs provide crisis counseling and safety planning, intensive case management, individual and group therapeutic counseling, accompaniment to criminal and civil legal court dates, as well as advocacy to obtain and maintain public benefits, file orders of protection, apply for crime victim assistance funds. We also provide long-term management skills training that empowers survivors to secure permanent housing, understand their housing rights and navigate the tenant-landlord relationship.

Recognizing that economic security is central to continued self-determination for survivors, VIP is heavily invested in developing models for economic security that are inclusive of all survivors, regardless of immigration status. Our Economic Justice Program not only helps survivors develop essential financial literacy skills but also, through our ArteSanando initiative, supports survivors in developing their own small businesses. In addition, VIP launched New York City's first worker co-operative business exclusively owned and operated by 18 immigrant survivors of domestic and sexual violence.