About Us
Since 1982, Family Support Center has advocated with survivors of violence.
Family Support Center (FSC) opened its doors and served survivors of domestic violence out of various church offices.
1982
1987
Our executive director, Geri, joined FSC.
1998
1999
The sexual assault outreach office opened on the UWEC campus, called CASA (Center for the Awareness of Sexual Assault). A few years later, the sexual assault outreach office opened in downtown Eau Claire.
2003
2021
Family Support Center had been serving survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault since it opened. In 1999, FSC received the funding needed to begin a sexual assault program, which has grown to five Advocates today.
The Protective Behaviors Education program began; giving kindergartners through high schoolers the tools they need to build healthy relationships and regulate intense emotions.
FSC received the funding to add a Human Trafficking Case Manager to the team. Being a member of the Wisconsin Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, it is beyond important to understand what human trafficking looks like in our community.
Anti-Oppression Statement
May 2, 2024
from Family Support Center Staff
For more than 40 years, Family Support Center has operated with the intent of serving Chippewa Valley survivors of violence from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and cultures. However, the wave of reckoning in 2020, surrounding the murder of George Floyd, was a catalyst for deeper thought, including assessing the racism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy within our own movement. We realized that unexamined intent was no substitute for action.
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We acknowledge that the anti-violence movement has been complicit in white supremacy and other forms of oppression, both through direct discrimination and by ignoring wrongs perpetrated against individuals, families, and communities due to race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, and other intersecting identities.
We grieve the lives lost, and the ways in which opportunities for growth have been diminished.
As an anti-violence organization, we understand that interpersonal violence and institutional violence are interconnected. We cannot only focus on individual harm without looking at broader structures of oppression and discrimination.
We are committed to uplifting individuals who seek our services, colleagues and staff, and the community at large by taking action against racism, anti-Blackness, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, and other social systems built around power and control. And we are committed to applying these principles in the day-to-day work we do: not just in response to crisis.
Anti-oppression work is ongoing. We will continue to scrutinize our internal practices, and those of the movement, with the courage to repair and grow from, not conceal, our mistakes and missteps.
We invite other organizations and systems to join us on this journey of reimagining a world in which everyone can grow to reach their full potential with the support of a strong and purposeful community.