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Welcome To The MCFJC Foundation
Giant Community Bag Fundraiser
During the month of January 2022, MCFJC Foundation will receive a $1 donation from each purchase of the $2.50 reusable Community Bag at the Giant Food store located at 625 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD.
Upcoming Events for Students (SSL Hours)
PSA Video Contest - NOW OPEN
This contest is open to all 6th – 12th-grade students living in Montgomery County. Students can enter the contest on their own or as a group. Students can receive 10 SSL hours. Prizes will be awarded at RespectFest.
Virtual Activities will be held from March 21 - 25, 2022.
The Festival will be held in person on March 27, 2022 at the Wheaton Community Recreation Center.
Virtual activities will include workshops, online games and engaging on social media.
The In Person event will include performances, speakers, workshops, yoga and announcing the winners of the video contest.
Join us to learn about dating violence and prevention while having fun, earning SSL hours, and winning raffles!
Ways to Support the MCFJC Foundation
$1 per card is donated to the Foundation to help victims of domestic violence. Search for MCFJC Foundation under Peace & Justice. Click Here to send an Eco Card.
Select us and when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the MCFJC Foundation. Click Here to sign up for AmazonSmile.
Items collected will be donated to meet the immediate and critical needs that directly impact the safety, wellness, and healing of a victim of domestic violence and their children. Items must be new and can be mailed or dropped off at the FJC Monday through Friday from 9 am – 5 pm.
600 Jefferson Plaza, 5th Floor
Rockville, MD 20849
Items Needed
- In the U.S. Approximately 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner.
- Prolonged stress and anxiety increase the frequency and severity of abuse.
- Gun sales are surging nationwide – victims of domestic violence are five times more likely to be killed when their abuser owns a gun.
- 6 million Americans filed for unemployment within the last few weeks. Unemployment increases the use of alcohol, which increases the severity and frequency of domestic violence.
- With school and activities being cancelled because of COVID-19 quarantined children must stay at home. This increases the risk of children being abused.
FREE services for victims of domestic violence available during the COVID-19 crisis:
The Family Justice Center (FJC)
Transportation to and/or from the Center is available for those who need it.
Monday – Friday from 8:30am – 5:00pm
Call: 240-773-0444
Walk-in: 600 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 500, Rockville, MD 20852
Abused Persons Program
Call: 240-777-4195
For 24-Hour Assistance: The Montgomery County Crisis Center
Call: 240-777-4000
The Montgomery County Family Violence Awareness and Prevention Campaign
Gun Safety During COVID-19
What is a Family Justice Center?
The Friends of the Family Justice Center is one of only approximately 40 centers located in the United States and other countries. The concept is to create a family-friendly environment in which a multi-disciplinary team of professionals works together in one, centralized location to provide coordinated services to victims of family violence.
Prior to the Center’s opening in Montgomery County, victims of domestic violence would have to visit as many as 20 different agencies to receive vital services and assistance. With victims often escaping their situations with only the clothes on their back and no transportation, this made an already challenging situation nearly impossible.
Financial Literacy
Financial literacy is a key to self-sufficiency. Self-sufficiency is a key to independent thinking. Independence is a critical piece in providing a better chance for a domestic violence victim to leave – and not return – to an abusive relationship.
The MCFJC Foundation, aware that victims of domestic violence are a vulnerable population who are oftentimes financially underserved and underbanked, is working with a local financial institution on a special project to help FJC clients (many of whom have never had access to any money of their own!) develop financial literacy and financial capacity.
For more information on Financial Abuse visit PurplePurse.com or NCADV.org.
To learn more about our Financial Literacy Program.
The goal is to help the client become totally financial fit. Elements of the on-going program include both general understandings as well as specific “how to’s”:
- Why financial independence is critical
- How financial independence helps break the inter generational cycle of violence
- How do I learn how to budget?
- Interactive discussions and Q & A events for parents and middle and high school students around the issue of financial literacy
- Selecting a bank or credit union that will be best for you
- How to open an account
- Establishing your own credit (or credit repair!
- Saving – no matter how small!
- Keeping your banking information safe
Our Mission
The mission of the MCFJC Foundation is two-fold: we support the work of the Montgomery County Family Justice Center by raising funds and providing services to victims of domestic violence and their children; and we raise awareness regarding the impact of domestic violence and outreach to the County’s youth to help teach about healthy relationships. A non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, The MCFJC Foundation works to help strengthen the lives of families affected by domestic violence and relationship abuse and break the cycle of violence in future generations.
We look forward to the day when the scourge of domestic violence – emotional, psychological and physical abuse – will no longer be a factor in the lives of our friends and neighbors in Montgomery County.
