Partnering with Walnut Avenue

We understand that no single organization or individual service provider can offer everything for everyone. Frameworks of collaborative care and other forms of partnership help share resources and access to services more equitably.

Some of the most commonly requested services from the survivors and families Walnut Avenue serves:

• Low-cost or pro-bono legal advice and representation

• Low- or no-cost therapeutic and clinical mental health services

• Rent assistance

• Low-cost childcare

• General case management

Some of the services that Walnut Avenue provides to other organizations:

• Education-based support groups, brought to your own offices or residential housing for the people you serve

• No-cost trainings, customized to meet your group’s needs

• Collaboration on individual or recurring events

With a release of information from your client or patient, advocates are also able to provide consultation to other providers who are serving survivors of domestic violence.

Hosting Domestic Violence Literature & Information

Walnut Avenue provides service brochures, crisis cards, and other literature which organizations, schools, and companies are invited to host wherever they display other local resource information. You can contact our community engagement coordinator at mcoffey@wafwc.org to hear about our resource options and request some for your own organization or other group space.

Please check back soon for a direct link to these materials that you can download and email around yourself with no waiting or fuss!

How to Become a Partner with Walnut Avenue

As an Organization or Institution

Walnut Avenue has memorandums of understanding (MOUs) and operational agreements (OAs) with a variety of community organizations. These include but are not limited to Dominican Hospital, Women’s Health Center, the Conflict Resolution Center of Santa Cruz County, the Santa Cruz District Attorney’s Office, the Lawyer Referral Service, Family Services Agency of the Central Coast, Diversity Center of Santa Cruz County, California State University of Monterey Bay, University of California Santa Cruz, and others. Many of these MOUs and OAs entail staff cross-trainings, referral policies, and collaborative care setups for shared services to clients/participants. To discuss the possibility of an MOU or OA with Walnut Avenue, please contact us at info@wafwc.org with a proposal to start the conversation!

If you’re interested in receiving training for yourself or your staff regarding Walnut Avenue’s services, domestic violence, family relationships, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), or related subjects, please visit our education page or contact mcoffey@wafwc.org. You do not need to have an MOU/OA with Walnut Avenue to receive free, customized training.

As an Individual Service Provider, Instructor, or Teacher

Yoga instructors, dance teachers, financial consultants, artists, and other individuals with unique skillsets have worked with us in the past to provide a limited series of classes or workshops at no cost to our participants. If you’d like to offer something to the people we serve, please contact info@wafwc.org with the following information:

• The specifics of the class, workshop, or other service you’d like to provide (the type of service it is, the duration or number of classes, etc)

• What the eligibility requirements for participation would be (e.g. gender, age, prior experience of domestic violence)

• What kind of space and/or supplies you would require from Walnut Avenue, if any

• Current liability or other insurance

Please note that all offerings must fit within our stated mission and values as an organization. Depending on what you would like to offer our participants, we may require that you receive some training on domestic violence, which would be offered to you by our advocates.

Making recommendations: at this time, Walnut Avenue does not offer recommendations of individual service providers to its participants.