New Jersey

We endeavor to empower each member of the family and strive to provide a range of services to ensure successful attainment of our mission. All services are provided to anyone/everyone free of charge and in complete confidence irrespective of their ethnicity, socio-economic background, gender or creed.

Garden State Equality lifts up the diverse voices of LGBTQ+ communities through education and advocacy to advance the movement for equality in New Jersey and nationally. We work tirelessly to ensure the communities we serve experience lived equality.

Garden State Equality is the largest LGBTQ+ advocacy organization in New Jersey, with over 150,000 members. Established in 2004, we are now one of the most successful statewide LGBTQ+ civil rights organizations in the nation.

Manavi provides a unique blend of culturally specific support services and intervention methods through Western advocacy practices and linguistically traditional techniques. As a direct service provider, social change agent and diversity trainer in the mainstream movement to end violence against women, Manavi simultaneously addresses both the immediate needs of women facing abuse and the long-term vision of establishing peaceful communities free from gender-based violence.

Manavi offers culturally specific and linguistically accessible services to survivors of violence. Manavi believes in centralizing the services women need to be empowered.

The services we provide include but are not limited to the following:

• Crisis intervention and Advocacy (Project Raahat)
• Culture specific counseling (Project Sabala)
• Court and medical accompaniment
• Women’s support group
• Legal clinic and referrals (Project Insaaf)
• Immigration relief and gender asylum (Project Zamin)
• Interpreter services
• Economic Empowerment (Project Samarth)
• Safe home (Project Ashiana)
• Transportation as needed
• Outreach and education (Project Rokeya)
• Training and technical assistance

Manavi (meaning “primal woman” in Sanskrit) is a tax-exempt and not-for-profit organization that was founded in February 1985. Six South Asian women founded Manavi as a consciousness-raising group. Within a short time, demands for help from battered women changed the focus of this budding organization. Manavi became a pragmatic organization determined to put theory into practice. It is the first organization in the U.S. to concentrate on the issue of violence against women in the South Asian immigrant community. Although Manavi is located and works with South Asian women who reside in New Jersey, its focus is also national and international. Manavi is an organization for South Asian women, with a mission to end violence against women and assist women to progress toward self-reliance and autonomy.

The International Center for Assault Prevention is a project of the Educational Information and Resource Center (EIRC), a public agency based in Sewell, New Jersey. NCAP’s mission is the prevention of interpersonal violence through curriculum development, research and evaluation, public education and comprehensive training. Its best-known program is the Child Assault Prevention Project known as CAP.