Domestic Violence Program at Los Angeles Clinic

St. John’s Community Health
Domestic Violence Services Program

Our St. John’s Community Health (SJCH) Domestic Violence (DV) Program is designed to empower our clients and provide supportive services for survivors of domestic violence, intimate partner abuse, sexual assault, and other crimes. Our program aims to improve the well-being and fundamental living conditions of individuals, families, and children affected by domestic violence. Our program strives to increase our client’s access to medical care, mental health, and legal services through our internal linkage system. We further assist with temporary financial assistance with rent, security deposit, moving cost, and supportive services to secure transitional and permanent housing for eligible clients enrolled in the program.

The overall goal of SJCH DV Program is to enhance safety and justice for survivors and their children through advocacy, case management, and support. Our program goals fully support our individual clients’ goals, and they are elaborated upon in our mission statement, which is to eliminate health disparities and foster community well-being by providing and promoting the highest quality care in South Los Angeles. Our mission statement builds on our vision statement which states that St. John’s Community Health will be a leader, catalyst, and model for the best care; long-term community health improvements; and sustainable, health-enhancing systems and structures in Los Angeles. SJCH adheres to the following core values:

  • Dignity: We honor and respect every person we encounter—whether patient, colleague, or community member—as a valued part of the human family.

  • Excellence: We support and champion the best standard of care, personal and professional growth, accountability, creativity, teamwork, and a steadfast commitment to quality.

  • Well-being: We promote and advocate for the full integration of our patients’ physical and mental health to enable them to participate in their own health improvement and become active and responsible members of a vibrant and just community.

  • Social Justice: We collaborate with others to develop systems, organizations, and programs to advance equity and fairness in allocating community resources, and to empower and address the needs of all community members, especially the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members.

Eligibility Requirements

  • Experienced a form of Domestic Violence/ abuse in the last 24 months (2 years)

  • If a client experienced a form of Domestic Violence over 24 months ago, they will strictly be case managed and not eligible for emergency funding assistance.

  • Must have filed a domestic violence restraining order, incident report, police report and/ or medical records of the abuse.

  • Complete an assessment and care plan to support individual needs.

  • Enroll in our Domestic Violence Program at St. John’s Community Health.

  • Agree to being assigned to a case manager and actively participate in a comprehensive care plan.

DV Program General Info: Yuritza Sanchez – Program Manager (PM)
Ysanchez@sjch.org