Resources For Resolving Violence, Inc. provide specialized assessments, community, and home-based, direct clinical and social work services for children and families attempting to heal from the impact of violence and sexual aggression. We are licensed as a Mental Health Agency by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.  

Services Include:

-	Community Support Services
-	Specialized Assessment and Treatment for Violence and Sexual Aggression
-	Home Based Family Services
-	Mental Health Outpatient
-	Outpatient therapy
-	Mental Health In Home Support
-	Trauma Recovery Services(CSS)

Administrative offices at 28 Marshview Drive, Freeport, Maine 04032, coordinate services provided, whenever possible, in each client’s residence, or home community. Traditional therapy sessions are facilitated in existing community service agency offices through a collaborative effort for bolstering rural service provision. 

Unique Features
Resources For Resolving Violence, Inc. fills a gap in the continuum of care for violence prevention and intervention.  In Maine and surrounding states specialized services in response to violence remain inadequate.  Many clinicians are not trained to provide a holistic, research-based response to violence, and systems of care remain fragmented in service provision.  Referral sources need a place for safe  “one-stop shopping” when violence is indicated.  

Residential placement can be too restrictive for the needs of many children and families. We provide comprehensive family assessments in order to recommend, and provide least restrictive family sensitive ecological interventions that reflect evidence-based best practices.  All recommendations are based on prevention, community safety, and harm reduction. Intensive home-based services of family therapy, skill building with youth and parents, resource development and mentorship is more ecologically sound, enhances potential for long-term success and is cost effective. Research on this approach indicates substantially reduced expenses with seamless integration into established wraparound processes.  

Children in need of intensive service remain on waiting lists for specialized residential treatment.  Seldom is family involvement adequate in residential care and transitions are fraught with inadequate social support and structured aftercare services. Geography and financial limitations often prevent the very social support that research indicates is a primary protective factor for prevention and early intervention. We provide intensive home-based services for children on waiting lists for residential care, in order to maximize the factors necessary for successful treatment outcomes.  Recourses For Resolving Violence will also provide comprehensive back-end assessments and aftercare services for children returning from residential treatment in order to reduce recidivism and enhance long-term well being and community safety. 

When services cannot be provided in a client’s home a location suitable for the family will be identified through collaboration with the referring entity. Such a location may be a room in a local state office, or site of other service provision such as a private agency. 

 

Clinical Services
Resources For Resolving Violence provides a range of clinical services to include specialized assessments, individual and, family therapy, and psycho-educational services for victims, perpetrators and witnesses of violence and sexual assault.  All services adhere to standards set forth by credentialing bodies and best practice research in conjunction with criminal justice. Community safety, victim justice and sensitivity are paramount.   All service provision adheres to an ecological framework that embraces each client’s family, pertinent neighbors, community, work, school, or church members (see Resources For Resolving Violence Philosophy of Care). 

Home Based Mental HealthServices
Short-term Intensive home-based mental health services are provided in accordance with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Center For Disease Control (2002) Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action; Office of The Surgeon General. (2001) Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General; The Forum for Youth Investment (2002); and The Findings of the Kauffmann Best Practices Project to Help Children Heal From Child Abuse (2004).

These services are provided in fidelity with the University of Colorado Blueprints For Violence. Prevention that identify specific research based elements of home-based services that impact successful treatment outcomes. Families receive such services in an intensive framework not to exceed 10 hours of weekly service provision with an average duration of three months. The goal is to provide evidence-based interventions in a cost effective manner to permanently stop violence and/or abuse. These services include time limited, multidisciplinary, multimodal treatment programs provided in home settings.  Frequency and intensity of services are individualized based upon the needs of each youth and family receiving services.

Outpatient Services
The range of outpatient services provided by Resources For Resolving Violence, Inc.  includes specialized assessments relating to trauma, violence and abuse, psychosocial evaluations, counseling services, individual and family psychotherapy, and psycho-educational services for victims, perpetrators and witnesses of violence and sexual assault. The goal is to provide evidence-based interventions in a cost effective manner to permanently stop violence and/or abuse when intensive in-home services are not indicated.  

These services include time limited, multidisciplinary, multimodal treatment programs provided in community settings.  Frequency and intensity of services are individualized based upon the needs of each youth and family receiving services. 

Referral Sources
Clients come from referrals provided by state departments of Child and Adult Protective Services, Behavioral and Developmental Services, Social Services, Rape and Domestic Violence Crises Centers, Coalitions Against Sexual Assault, shelters, detention centers, court services units, schools, and private medical, mental health, psychological and psychiatric service agencies 

Admission Criteria
All clients will be assessed to meet intake criteria for the reception of community-based services.  Resources For Resolving Violence is unable to serve actively psychotic clients or those unable to orient to time and place.