The Family Justice Center Guiding Principles, developed by the Family Justice Center Alliance Advisory Board, are the fundamental values that direct the vision, service delivery, and environment of a Family Justice Center.
- Safety Focused- Increase safety, promote healing, and foster empowerment through services for victims and their children.
- Victim- Centered Provide victim-centered services that promote victim autonomy.
- Culturally Competent- Commitment to the utilization of culturally competent services approaches that are measurable and behavior based.
- Intervene and Prevent- Engage all communities through outreach and community education.
- Survivor Driven- Shape services to clients by asking them what they need.
- Transformative- Evaluate and adjust services by including survivor input and evidence-based best practices.
- Relationship-based- Maintain close working relationships among all collaborators and agencies.
- Prevention-oriented- Integrate primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches to all initiatives, programs and projects.
- Kind-hearted- Develop a Family Justice Center community that values, affirms, recognized and support staff, volunteers and clients.
- Empowered- Offer survivors a place to belong even after crisis intervention services are no longer necessary.
- Offender Accountability- Increase offender accountability through evidence based prosecution strategies.