Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence Information

www.mcedsv.org Our Mission: MCEDSV is dedicated to the empowerment of all the state's survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Our Vision: MCEDSV is Michigan's catalyst for creating empowered and transformed individuals, communities, and societies committed to building a lasting legacy of equality, peace and social justice, where domestic and sexual violence no longer exists. Our Goals and Values: 1. Provide statewide leadership on public policy issues affecting survivors and the programs that serve them. 2. Promote comprehensive, community-based social change efforts to end domestic and sexual violence and build peaceful communities. 3. Promote the availability and accessibility of high-quality, culturally-relevant, domestic and sexual violence services and prevention programs. 4. Build capacity for community-specific solutions to ending domestic and sexual violence. 5. Encourage the leadership of women. MCEDSV is a network of community-based domestic violence and sexual assault programs. Services provided by our members include: * Comprehensive, community-based change efforts to end domestic and sexual violence * 24-hour crisis intervention hotlines * Advocacy, counseling and support groups * Outreach and public education * Legal advocacy/court accompaniment * Forensic nurse examiner programs * Emergency safe shelters * Children’s programming In 2013, the MCEDSV statewide network of programs provided crisis intervention services to 37,793 survivors and their families.