Capital Area Response Effort (C.A.R.E.)

The Capital Area Response Effort is a post-arrest response team federally funded by the Victims of Crime Act. C.A.R.E. works collabrately with five local police departments within Ingham county: Lansing, East Lansing, M.S.U. Lansing Township and Meridian Township to provide information and support to survivors who are experiencing domestic violence within an intimate relationship.

C.A.R.E.’s mission is to reduce family violence in Ingham County by drawing on community resources, advocacy, and community education to intervene with families affected by domestic violence. Since, our inception in 1996, C.A.R.E. has played a vital role in providing advocacy for female, male and same sex partners who are victims of domestic violence.

Domestic violence is an “Equal Opportunity Destroyer” which occurs across all cultural, educational, racial, socioeconomic, heterosexual, gay and lesbian relationships. Domestic violence is a pattern of abuse involving one person controlling another through various forms of “power and control” such as physical, emotional, economic, religious, threats, isolation from one’s support system, using children and/or stalking.

The C.A.R.E Program also recruits and train community residents to access volunteer opportunities we offer to 18 or order, of any gender, willing to attend pre-volunteer training and a background check.

National Domestic Violence Hotline-English & Spanish speaking staff as well as translators for 139 languages are available to listen and provide resources: 1-800-799-7233, TDD 1-800-787-3224, www.nrscrisisline.org

Contact Information box

C.A.R.E. Program
lpdcare@yahoo.com
517-272-7436