Mothers in Charge and the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) provide a peer support specialist, victim advocate and intake specialist.
We offer assistance to survivors left behind by homicide victims with:
• VCAP (Victims Compensation Assistance)
• Healing/Grief Support (individual and group)
• Anger Management
• Court Accompagnement
• Victim Advocacy
From mentoring students and teaching anger management to providing grief support, public education programming and more, we are doing all that we can at Mothers in Charge to keep our children safe and healthy.
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Several members of Mothers in Charge took the stage with local journalists at the inaugural Better Gun Violence Reporting Summit. The national journalism convention focused on news coverage of community gun violence and convened at WHYY on November 8th. (Read more.)
Without ever pulling the trigger, women play a hidden, but significant, role in gun violence in Philadelphia and across the country. (Read more.)
Mothers in Charge was a key partner in an event informing best practices for journalists covering gun violence. (Read more.)
In recognition of Reentry Month, Mothers in Charge hosted a Comprehensive Community Healing event on June 21st and 22nd at Lincoln University in Philadelphia. (Read more.)
Mothers in Charge Founder and Executive Director Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight was interviewed by Loraine Ballard Morrill. (Read more.)
We hosted our first community meeting of 2019 Thursday night with special guest speaker Lt. Norman Davenport of the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit. (Read more.)
Valerie Todd of Mothers in Charge discusses her experience. This is the first installment of a new series called Monday Moms, which will share the stories of Mother in Charge members here on our web site. (Read more.)
The Mothers in Charge community sends our warmest wishes and congratulations to founder and executive director Dr. Dorothy-Johnson Speight on earning her Doctoral Degree in Education from Fielding Graduate University. Please consider expressing your congratulations by making a donation to support her mission and continue our work.
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