Define organizations, social services, and social agencies” using your chosen community/organization.
Organizations
The people whom run the BVDP at Lutheran Settlement House come together to help victims and survivors of domestic violence get the help and services they need in order to get away and stay away from their abuser.
Social Services This organization’s purpose is to boost the well being of others. The Bilingual Domestic Violence Program enhances the clients well being by providing counseling. The organization offers three different …show more content…
This is important because domestic violence does not come in a particular language, culture or ethnicity. The largest language that the BDVP provides services too other than English is Spanish community. There is a large population of Latino’s in the neighborhood next Fishtown and many of the women experience domestic violence. Families are a main focus in the Latin community and the women are usually the caregivers, while the men are the “bread-winners”. This makes it difficult for many of the women to leave their abusive partners (Perilla & Serrata, 2012). With the BDVP, immigrants have an ally and do not need to worry about finding services that will be able to help because the Lutheran Settlement House does that for