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Our Services

Wafa House believes in a holistic approach to safety and healing for all. We offer social services, mental health counseling, and legal services, and many of our clients access multiple services throughout their journey.

Mental Health

A variety of counseling and support services offered in a confidential and culturally sensitive environment, by licensed, Master’s level clinicians, in English, Arabic and Urdu. All of our services are fully confidential & free of charge. Our services include:

  • Individual Counseling

  • Marriage & Family Counseling

  • Play Therapy 

  • Substance Abuse Counseling

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Counseling

Counseling is a personal opportunity to receive support and experience growth during challenging times in life. Counseling can help one deal with many personal topics in life such as: 

 

  • Anger

  • Domestic violence

  • Depression

  • Anxiety

  • Substance abuse

  • Marriage and relationship challenges

  • Parenting concerns 

  • School difficulties 

  • Career changes

 

​Working one on one in a confidential and culturally sensitive environment, our counseling sessions allow individuals to explore their feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, work through challenging or influential memories, identify aspects of their lives that they would like to change, better understand themselves and others, set personal goals, and work toward desired change. 

Play Therapy

Play therapy is based on the communicative and learning processes of children. Our counselors use play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings.

Play therapy helps children:

  • become more responsible for behaviors and develop more successful strategies.

  • develop new and creative solutions to problems.

  • develop respect and acceptance of self and others.

  • learn to experience and express emotion.

  • cultivate empathy and respect for thoughts and feelings of others.

  • learn new social skills and relational skills with family.

  • develop self-efficacy and thus a better assuredness about their abilities.

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Case Management Services

Our Master’s Level, bilingual Case Managers ensure clients utilize the appropriate services available to them, develop a treatment plan, and follow through with clients on their progress. All clients’ situations are evaluated and the best courses of action for each individual or family are implemented, coordinating both in-house and wraparound social services, as needed, in a cohesive, time sensitive plan. 

By implementing a success plan, our clients are given the opportunity to achieve independence in a systematic, but also deeply gratifying way. Each successful step offers clients a sense of independence and confidence, while achieving the critical goal of financial and personal safety and security for her and her family.

Our Case Management Team connects clients with resources that address:

  • ​Social Services & Advocacy

  • Diaper Bank (Must qualify)

  • Referrals & Resources

  • Emergency Financial Assistance (Must Qualify)

  • Utilities (Must Qualify)

  • Food Insecurities (Case by Case Basis)

  • Transportation Vouchers (Case by Case Basis)

Legal Services

Wafa House believes in a holistic, restorative approach to justice for our clients. They are often reluctant to seek legal assistance due to language barriers; fear of law enforcement due to negative experiences in their country or the US; lack of familiarity with the US legal system; varying cultural norms related to gender roles, the rights of women and children, and shame associated with specific types of victimization; and previous trauma. 

Our in-house legal team is comprised of a family law attorney,  and an Arabic-speaking legal assistant. Our legal assistant provides general guidance and legal referrals to partners outside of Wafa House who may be better suited to their case. For our qualifying clients, our attorney and legal assistant will assist with court proceedings related to: 

  • divorce

  • child custody

  • domestic violence

  • sexual violence

  • orders of protection

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Outreach & Prevention Services

Wafa House works effortlessly to provide training, outreach, informational sessions, and preventive educational events within the community in efforts to spread awareness about domestic violence within the community and the services Wafa House provides. The outreach team also works hard at building relationships with community partners to be able to provide more resources for clients in need. 

We offer a variety of workshops and trainings under Wafa House Academy. Our trainings can be customized to fit the needs of the organization. Some of our most requested workshops, include:

  • Fundamentals of working with Middle Eastern and South Asian communities.

  • Misconceptions of Domestic Violence  and Sexual Assault in the Middle Eastern culture with conversation on the Islamic and Christian faith. 

  • The everyday life after separation, the misconception of the life of a Divorced Man/Women in the Muslim World.

  • The prevalence of child abuse and neglect and future perpetration. 

  • The everyday life of a Middle Eastern teen and young adults with conversation on trauma.

 

If you are interested in a collaboration or becoming a partner, please email info@wafahouse.org.

If you are interested in training or workshops, fill out this form.

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