We will rise up as a community to work toward a safer, kinder world for us all
It will take all of us to build a community where everyone has safe, supportive relationships. That’s why Claire’s Community offers a variety of relationship violence prevention programs and resources for youth and adults that will equip everyone to stop interpersonal violence before it begins.
What We Value
The inherent equality and worth of all individuals.
The strength and power of individuals
to make their own life choices.
The right of every individual to a safe and just environment.
Community accountability and recognition to eliminate the root causes of violence.
The integrity of our organizational practices.
Responding to community need with vision, creativity and courageous leadership.
20 per minute
the number of people physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States.
What we intend to do about it
We envision a community where everyone enjoys safe, supportive relationships in which they can thrive, where no one is a victim – or perpetrator – of interpersonal violence. It’s a big dream, we know. But prevention is possible. As we educate and empower people of all ages to build healthy, respectful, nonviolent relationships, it will ripple through our community and bring transformative change.
Claire's Community Uses a Proven Approach.
Comprehensive
Claire’s Community follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s comprehensive approach to preventing relationship violence by addressing risk and protective factors at multiple levels: individual, peer and family, community, and societal. This broad approach employs multi-sector interventions designed to create a social and physical environment where harmful behaviors are less likely and healthy behaviors are encouraged and supported.
Evidence-Based
The strategies employed by Claire’s Community are based on the best available evidence to help our community focus on prevention activities with a proven record of reducing relationship violence and its consequences across the lifespan.
Honoring Claire’s legacy
LT Dr. Claire VanLandingham was a shining star, a US Navy dentist who poured her passion and energy into the people and causes she believed in. In January 2018, she was killed by a former partner. Her passing left a vacuum in the lives of those who knew and loved her. So in May 2018, Claire’s mother, Shannon VanLandingham, and others who knew and loved Claire founded #BeMoreLikeClaire (now Claire's Community) to carry on the transformative work Claire most surely would have done in her life.