Coalition for Women's Safety, 1979

This series documents the programs and services that were administered by RMSC from 1971-1999. Programs include education and job training; anti-crime and violence prevention; housing counseling, development and ownership; emergency and family shelter; community development; minority graduate student training; psychological assessment and counseling; sexual assault and rape awareness; youth development; minority student tutoring; community based correction for criminal offenders; summer camp; residential centers for young women and youth; college scholarship fund; and day treatment and mental health services. Prominent programs include Community Programs Against Sexual Assault and Rape Prevention (CPASA); Commonwealth Fellows; Green-On-Blue; Day Activity; Family House Shelter; Quincy-Geneva Housing Development Corporation; Rebuild and Improve Grove Hall Together (Project R.I.G.H.T.); Reading Skills Lab; 735 House; and the summer camp programs including New Visions Day Camp.

This series is made up of correspondence from funders and consultants; program descriptions, reports and statistics from executive and program directors to funding sources; grant proposals and contracts; educational material used in rape awareness workshops; client activities schedules; program newsletters; newsletters from other social justice organizations; newspaper articles; and site visit reports by government and private funders. Minutes from the Massachusetts Coalition of Rape Services and the Dorchester Counseling Center's Human Rights Committee are also included. Grant proposals found only in this series, such as the Community Based after School Tutorial Program, Elderly and Persons with AIDS Counseling and Placement, and the HUD/RMSC Summer Clean-up were never funded. The grant proposals and contracts scattered throughout this series are incomplete. Series 5 contains grant proposals for both funded and non-funded programs. Also, see Series 2 Board of Director minutes for background on such programs as the Teen Education Center, the South Boston School Enrichment Program, and the Day Treatment program (Box 3, Folders 1-6).

Of special interest is CPASA's relationship to the Derby (England) Rape Crisis Center, the Women's Crisis Center in Manila, Philippines, and the rape crisis center in Belize. Also of interest are the (unpublished?) drafts of the "Violence Against Women" chapter of Our Bodies, Ourselves.