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Connections for Abused Women and their Children (CAWC) is committed to ending domestic violence. Using a self-help, empowerment approach, we provide a shelter for adults and children, counseling, advocacy, and a 24-hour hotline for people affected by domestic violence. We work for social change through education, service collaboration, and institutional advocacy.

Avalon Center works to end domestic and sexual violence by breaking the cycle of abuse through education, prevention, shelter and support services in the greater Williamsburg and Middle Peninsula communities.

For nearly 35 years, Voices for Children (VFC) has worked to create childhoods filled with laughter and love – including a stable home and a caring family devoted to helping foster children thrive. We serve children of all ages who have been traumatized by parental abuse, neglect, or abandonment to such an extent that they have been removed from their homes and placed into San Diego County’s foster care system.

The Dan Steele Memorial Endowment Fund celebrates the life of Chapman alumni Dan Steele. Dan passed away at the young age of 22, on November 13, 2015. The endowment fund provides scholarships to students entering the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. In this way, we hope Dan's memory lives on in the hearts and minds of those at chapman who supported and nurtured him.

The mission of Family Violence Prevention Services, Inc. is to break the cycle of violence and to strengthen families by providing the necessary tools for self-sufficiency through delivery of emergency shelter, transitional housing, individual counseling and support groups, education, effective parenting education, and specialized intervention with youth and the elderly.