Project PAVE Organizational Fact Sheet
Project PAVE provides effective, culturally-relevant violence prevention education, victim identification, and counseling services in underserved Denver communities. Understanding that children exposed to violence often become victims or perpetrators later in life, programs are tailored to the meet the unique needs of children and youth who are victims and/or witnesses of child abuse, domestic violence, and teen dating violence.
The organizations’s clinical counseling and violence prevention programs implement two effective strategies: awareness and outreach that prevent violence and often result in victim identification, followed by clinical counseling that addresses the impact of violence on victims and their families. All Project PAVE programs and services are bilingual, with bilingual / bicultural staff members providing Project PAVE services in the community.
Mission:
To empower youth to end the cycle of relationship violence.
Background:
Project PAVE was founded in 1986 in conjunction with a tragic incident in which a well-known attorney, representing a woman in a domestic violence case, was shot and paralyzed by her client’s estranged husband.
In 2009, Project PAVE clinic and school-based counselors provided 4,112 services to 596 children, youth and families. Educators reached 4,416 students, parents, and professionals through the school-based violence prevention curriculum. This was a 10% increase in those served over 2008.
Project PAVE clients are:
- 27% Latino, 28% African American, 26% Caucasian, 2% Asian and 1% Native American and 16% Other
- 57% female, 43% male
- 9% mono or bilingual Spanish speakers
76% members of households with annual incomes of less than $25,000, with many lacking health insurance.
Less than 1/2 of low-income Colorado children receive critical mental health services.
The Status of Mental Health Care in Colorado, 2003
