Services

  • Safe shelter for women & children
  • 24 hr. crisis line
  • Medical advocacy
  • Legal advocacy
  • Court advocacy support
  • Individual Counseling
  • Referrals
  • Protection orders
  • Educational presentations
  • Emergency cellular phones
  • Domestic violence support group
  • Sexual assault support group
  • Child Support group
  • Pictures of injuries
  • Agency training
  • Volunteer and staff training
  • Information and education

All services are free and confidential

Domestic Violence

One out of every 4 women will suffer some kind of violence at the hands of her boyfriend or husband.

ARE YOU ABUSED?

Does your partner:
• Track all of your time?
• Check phone for calls made or received?
• Constantly accuse you of being unfaithful?
• Keep you from your friends and family?
• Criticize you for little things?
• Control the finances?
• Force you to account for money spent?
• Humiliate you in public?
• Call you names in front of friends?
• Destroy your property?
• Destroy sentimental items?
• Hit, punch, slap, kick or bite you?
• Threaten to use a weapon against you?
• Force you to have sex against your will?
• Threaten to take your children?

DON'T IGNORE THE PROBLEM!

Talk to someone. Part of the abuser's power comes from isolation and secrecy.

Plan ahead and know what you will do if you feel you are in danger. Decide where you will go, who you can call to help you. Put important papers in a place where you can get to them quickly.

Learn to think independently. Try to plan for a future and set goals for yourself.

Children

Many parents underestimate the effect that family violence has on their children.

  • 75% of children witnessing violence either become abused or abusive
  • 76% of crimes are committed by juveniles who have grown up in violent homes

Domestic Violence can effect children physically, emotionally and educationally:

  • Headaches, ulcers, nightmares, eating disorders, bedwetting and self abusing behaviors;
  • Developmental delays such as: speech & motors problems, poor attention and behavioral problems;
  • Guilt, confusion, anger, depression, anxiety, grief and loneliness.

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse is forced or tricked sexual contact between a child and an older person.

Child Sexual Abuse is NOT limited to a particular type of child or one particular sex.

The Sexual Abuser is familiar to the child & family 85% of the time.

Educate yourself and your children about how to prevent Child Sexual Abuse.

Sexual Assault

Rape is a violent crime, a hostile attack in an attempt to hurt and humiliate.

Rapists are not necessarily strangers. Over 1/3 of reported cases involve a person known by the victim.

IF YOU ARE RAPED, GET HELP QUICKLY

  • Call law enforcement
  • Call a Rape Crisis Center
  • Call your doctor
  • Call a friend or relative

Do not wash, shower, douche, change clothing or clean up until after you talk to police and/or go to the hospital.

Remember, you have no reason to feel guilty or ashamed.

Adult Children of Sexual Abuse
Incest is sexual abuse that occurs between family members.

  • One in three girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused by age sixteen.
  • 24 million American adult women were abused as children.
  • 85% of that 24 million were abused by a family member or step parent.
  • Survivors often feel out of control, fear, shame, anger, confusion and depression.

These feelings can subside by getting counseling or joining a support group.