The Women’s Center
Announces Rebranding: AVANZAR
Linwood, NJ – August 2, 2018 – The Women’s Center has announced its new name: AVANZAR.
This dynamic rebranding, including a new logo, is one that more fully represents the Center’s 43-year evolution and enriched Social Justice Services in Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking, Displaced Homemakers, Fatherhood, Early Childhood Education and Dismantling Racism. What started as a 24-hour rape and sexual assault counseling hotline has grown into an agency with over 60 staff, major programs, and a multitude of services. With the addition of new services, the agency has become far more than a shelter.
“Changing the name to AVANZAR, and the organization’s new logo, captures the Center’s mission to empower individuals and families by working to secure their physical safety, emotional well-being, individual freedom, and economic equality. The new name and logo embrace a contemporary mindset,” explained Claudia Ratzlaff, chief executive officer of AVANZAR.
AVANZAR, which means “to move forward” in Spanish, captures the organization’s commitment to serve the broadest community; the logo further represents the Center’s commitment to engage and empower individuals of all races, ethnicities, national origins, ages, gender identities, socioeconomic statuses, religious, sexual orientations, and physical and intellectual abilities. The new tagline,“Safety, Justice, Empowerment”, mirrors AVANZAR’s vision of striving to be the premier Social Justice Agency focused on equitable inclusiveness. The logo’s
Below is a list of the free and confidential services offered by AVANZAR:
Dismantling Racism
AVANZAR is committed to providing equitable and inclusive treatment to our diverse community with a fully integrated and educated staff. Diversity is our strength, and we celebrate it by helping individuals of all ages, races, nationalities, religions, physical abilities, sexual orientations and gender identities. We pledge ourselves to creating and maintaining an environment that respects multiple traditions, heritages, and experiences. Our goal is to eliminate discrimination by becoming change agents in the workplace and in the community.
Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Human Trafficking Services
The Domestic Violence service programs work to reduce the physical, psychological and emotional trauma, and recurrence of domestic violence, sexual assault and incest experienced by victims and their families. Human trafficking services are provided state-wide. All services are free and confidential.
Peace: A Learned Solution (PALS)
Peace: A Learned Solution (PALS) provides creative arts therapy services to children and their families, who have witnessed or experienced domestic violence. It is free of charge and open to children and the non-offending parents or adults in their lives. Services are also available for adults who have experienced violence through the Domestic Violence Service Program.
Fatherhood Services
Fathers Ending Abuse is designed to improve the well-being of children through involved, responsible, and committed parenting. A 26-session program is designed to support men who are striving to make a positive change in their own lives, and in the lives of their children and families.
Displaced Homemaker Program and Self Sufficiency Services
The Displaced Homemaker Program assists individuals who have been out of the workforce for some time; and due to divorce, separation, death, or disability of a spouse or partner, or by being displaced by domestic violence, now find themselves as the primary source of household income, and having to return to work. The focus is to provide employment support tools to help the displaced homemaker and self sufficiency client in obtaining or upgrading skills for today’s labor market; to attain independence, and to earn a living wage.
Grow NJ Kids South Region Technical Assistance Center and NJ First Steps
The South Region Technical Assistance Center for Grow New Jersey Kids and NJ First Steps is committed to providing technical assistance, coaching and modeling to early childhood educators enrolled in quality improvement initiatives. Both programs are available to licensed child care centers and Family Child Care Providers. These state-sponosred initiatives are designated to raise the quality of child care and early learing by providing resources to assess and improve their programs. The South Region Technical Assistance Center provides services to the seven counties that comprise Southern New Jersey: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem.
For more information about Avanzar, please visit their new website at www.avanzarnow.org or call 609-601-9925.
