Nuevo Amanecer

Nuevo Amanecer is a comprehensive Anti-Domestic Violence Program  created by our founder Mireya Cruz in 1998 , providing services to approximately 150 women and their children every  year to empower them to live violence free lives.

Our Goals:
Help and support battered women gain control of their lives and make informed decisions about their domestic violence situations.
Create a confidential space to effectively serve battered women and their children in the Washington Heights/Inwood and other communities of NYC.
Help the criminal justice system to respond more efficiently to violence against women, in particular, Latinas.
Provide culturally sensitive services.
 

Our Services:

• 24 HOURS HOTLINE 212-568-6616
• Crisis intervention
• Information and referral services.
• Individual Counseling
• Support Groups in Spanish
• Advocacy
• Crime Victims Compensation Assistance
• Workshops
• Renacer: A program for children and adolescents witnesses and survivors of domestic violence which offers i group counseling, peer support groups, information and referrals.

 

The Nuevo Amanecer Program is a member and organizer of:

• Bride’s March Against Domestic Violence – The Nuevo Amanecer Program of the DWDC is a member of the New York Latinas Against Domestic Violence, a citywide organization that organizes the Annual Brides’ March Against Domestic Violence in memory of Gladys Ricart and other victims of domestic violence every year on September 26.

 

• Washington Heights Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Nuevo Amanecer is also a member of the Washington Heights Coalition Against Domestic Violence where it collaborates with other anti-domestic violence service providing organizations, the local police precincts, and the local community board to contribute to the elimination of violence at a community wide level.

 

• International Day of Non-Violence Against Women- Every year, Nuevo Amanecer organizes the Annual International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to commemorate the lives of our heroines the Mirabal sisters. The Mirabal sisters were four Dominican political dissidents who fought for their country's freedom, and opposed the dictatorship of Rafael LeonidasTrujillo. Consequently, they were persecuted, incarcerated in various occassions, and three of the sisters were brutally assassinated on November 25, 1960. Thus, in 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 25 (the anniversary of the murder of the Mirabal sisters) as the annual date of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women in their honor.