Safelight

Safelight, Inc. offers a broad range of services that includes shelter, counseling, court advocacy, career training, and independent living assistance to victims and their families. Our mission is creating hope, healing lives, changing community. We do this by providing trauma informed services that allow survivors of domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault to build new, violence-free lives in a sustainable way. Safelight is known as the primary service provider for survivors of interpersonal violence in henderson county. Through our continuum of programs, we help survivors begin the process of overcoming physical and emotional trauma; these include emergency shelter, counseling, an accredited child advocacy center, family justice center, and job training program. Our services include a 24-hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter, job training, child medical exams, forensic interviewing, counseling, support groups, case management, court and enmergency room advocacy, law enforcement accompaniment, and community education and advocacy. Community based education and advocacy for prevention and our job training program. By removing barriers, Safelight's services heal lives and create a safer, healthier community. During the 2021-2022 year- "we are not just statistics these are our neighbors, our community" 24-hour shelter filled 7,279 beds for 162 survivors 24-hour hotline answered over 720 calls counseling center saw 369 clients for 2,618 sessions, community advocacy and prevention education was given to 5,951 individuals. Job training through our sewing, resale store, and cafe' trained 20 interns child advocacy center assisted 319 children family justice center helped 270 survivors domestic violence partner intervention program engaged 53 men and women