The Community Advocacy Project (CAP) provides advocacy and individually tailored assistance to women who have been physically and/or emotionally abused by intimate partners as well as to their children, who may have been bystanders in abusive situations. CAP’s objectives of eliminating or reducing the risk of future abuse and improving participants’ quality of life are premised on the women gaining empowerment and coping skills, obtaining social support, and recognizing and using community resources.
CAP is delivered by trained, supervised paraprofessionals who work as advocates with participating women and their children to help them obtain needed community resources and social support, often after the women leave a shelter-based program.