NEXT DOOR
Target demographics: Next Door helps rebuild the lives of victims of domestic violence and their children in Santa Clara County.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Victims of Domestic Violence and their children, immigrant and citizens alike, from diverse ethnic families, of all ages.
Geographic areas served: Santa Clara County
Next Door seeks “to enddomestic violence in the moment and for all time,” addressing all sides of theissue by rebuilding the lives of victims, fostering healthy choices forchildren, and advocating for responsible policy change at the city, county andfederal levels. To achieve its goals, Next Door provides innovative preventionand intervention services to diverse ethnic and low-income families in SantaClara County, California, the majority of them coming from San Jose. Next Doorsees the issue of DV as an intergenerational cycle of transmission--children ofvictims and batterers tend to exhibit high-risk behaviors that enable thetransmission of self-destruction and violence to continue. By addressing DVfrom this perspective, Next Door both rebuilds the lives affected by thetraumas of DV, and prevents further violence for future generations.
