Phone:
(973) 509-5428
Address:
1408 Main Street
Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712
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, Inc
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.