Safeplace

Supportive housing - safe shelter is provided in two residential facilities within the six county service area. Services at the 40-bed and 17-bed residential facilities include case mangaement, counseling, job skills training, court advocacy, life skills training, and housing stability services. Transitional housing is provided throughout the six county service area through a voucher program. This service assists survivors with rent, deposits, utilities, arrears, child care assistance, and other costs incidental to relocation and stabilization.

Supportive services - includes counseling for adults and children who have experienced domestic violence; legal assistance with protection from abuse orders, emergency child custody, and divorces; court/victim advocacy; six weekly community support groups, two of which are in spanish; a daily program for children ages 2-5 who have experienced domestic violence; along with relocation, transportation, and medication assistance.

Violence intervention - six batterer intervention groups (the peace program) meet once per week. Men's nonviolence classes offers the opportunity for men who batter to examine and change the beliefs they hold that allow them to be violent to or controlling of their partners. A program for victims who use violence (the harmony program) provides three groups that meet once each week to help victims simultaneously address the violence they are using and the violence they are experiencing in their lives.