Navigating services across the community can be complicated and time-consuming.

One Place Metro Alabama Family Justice Center

Navigating services across the community can be complicated and time-consuming.

Reaching out for help is difficult. 

Transportation might be a barrier to making it to that “next place” – to file a report, speak to a counselor, or ask questions about what to expect in court.

When you’re afraid, it can be overwhelming – even paralyzing – to take one more step, to tell one more person about what you’ve experienced.

Telling and retelling a story to new strangers at every turn, typically in open places where offenders may show up at any time is discouraging.

Many have reported feeling re-victimized as they have tried to maneuver between multiple people at multiple locations.

We don’t want the complicated journey to safety and recovery to prevent you from seeking the services and resources that are here for you.

This is the reason One Place exists: To remove some of these barriers by co-locating resources in one place. We want to make it easier to access services and resources, have your questions and concerns addressed, develop a safe plan of action, and receive the support you deserve.

You are not alone. One Place is here to help.

Guiding Principles

As an affiliated Family Justice Center, we abide by the following guiding principles set forth by the Family Justice Center Alliance

Victim-Centered

To provide victim-centered services that promote victim autonomy and empowerment.

Safety-Focused

To increase safety, promote healing, and foster empowerment through services for victims and their children.

Embrace Change

Evaluate and adjust services by including survivors input and evidence-based best practices.

Holistic

Utilize a multifaceted treatment approach that meets the needs of the whole person.

Survivor Driven

Shape services to the need of clients.

Self-Determination

Survivors have the right to choose their life’s direction.

Relationship-Based

Maintain close working relationships among all collaborators / agencies.

Trauma-Informed

Acknowledge the profound impact of trauma, which shapes all aspects of services.

Offender Accountability

Increase offender accountability through evidence-based prosecution strategies.

Empowered

Offer survivors, and their children, a place to belong even after the crisis intervention services are no longer necessary.

Kind-Hearted

Develop a community that values, affirms, recognizes and supports staff, partners, volunteers, and clients.

Prevention-Oriented

Integrate primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention approaches into all initiatives, programs, and projects.

Culturally-Responsive

Commitment to the utilization of culturally-relevant service approaches with respect for diversity and promotion of inclusion.

Solution-Focused

Develop creative solutions and accomplish more for survivors while working together as a united team.