Supportive Counseling & Advocacy

Manavi has a corps of trained staff and volunteers who provide culture specific supportive counseling and advocacy to South Asian women. Our counseling technique:

• is language and culture specific,
  
• uses a communication style that is non-threatening and familiar,
  
• acknowledges the fact that the survivor might be a recent immigrant to the U.S. and therefore unaware of the system and her rights,
  
• recognizes the fact that the woman we work with may face forms of culture-specific discrimination through the family and other social structures that are different from the kinds of gender discrimination commonly faced by American survivors.

Our counseling team is supported by a number of experienced domestic violence specialists. Volunteers are available 7 days a week to provide crisis intervention services to women in need.