Center for Hope and Strength

Mental Health

About

Therapeutic services for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors in downtown San Diego are the core mission of Center for Hope and Strength, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 at 1122 Broadway. The center functions as a community partner of the San Diego Family Justice Center, providing individual and group therapy to survivors within the same building that houses law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim advocates—a co-located service model that also supports criminal proceedings through offices such as the Law Offices of Anna R. Yum. Clinical staff have conducted approximately 7,000 risk assessments using the Danger Assessment Instrument developed by researcher Jacqueline Campbell, a lethality-screening tool that quantifies escalation patterns in intimate partner violence cases. Survivors presenting with co-occurring physical injuries coordinate medical care with downtown primary-care providers, including David Torres Barba, MD, PhD at Sharp Rees-Stealy, to address trauma-related somatic symptoms alongside psychological treatment. Expert-witness testimony services cover San Diego County Superior Court, the District Attorney's Office, and military judicial proceedings, applying forensic psychological evaluation standards to intimate partner violence and dissociative symptom assessment.

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