Providing
Prevention, Training, & Resources for Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault & Stalking
in Southern Mississippi

Our Mission

The mission of the Southern Mississippi Rural Women’s Health Collaborative (SMRWHC) is to increase and enhance the availability and accessibility of education and training on domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking to providers of rural victims through a trauma-informed lens. The SMRWHC seeks to address the prevention of violence against women in some of Mississippi’s most southern and underserved rural communities by enhancing the current service delivery system through education, training, and outreach efforts.

Community Partnership

The Southern Mississippi Rural Women’s Health Collaborative consists of the primary partners in the Mississippi Domestic Violence Coalition, the Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Domestic Abuse Family Shelter, the Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention, and the Clean Slate Behavioral Health Solutions. The SMRWHC also includes local domestic violence and sexual assault programs and their MOU partners of the community health centers that cover the eight target counties.

Serving Eight Counties in Southern Mississippi

The Southern Mississippi Rural Women's Health Collaborative Project serves eight deep-south Mississippi counties, all located in the southern part of the state. These counties include Smith, Jasper, Jefferson Davis, Covington, Jones, Wayne, Marion, and Greene County.

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