Program areas at Women Aware
Legal advocacy, children's trauma therapy, support group, domestic violence liaisons in child protective services, housing navigation and safety planning.during january through june 2022, Women Aware' provided 24/7 support to victims and their children. 4,149 calls were received and answered via our multilingual hotline during the six-month timeframe. Of those, 1,158 were crisis call from people expressing safety concerns. Our advocates provided support to victims in nine different languages including: spanish, arabic, portuguese, punjabi, bengali, urdu, hindi, chinese, and polish.we experienced an increase of 26% in our residential services and 36% in non-residential services. Our emergency shelter was able to offer 6,294 nights of safe placement and shelter 142 individuals. Our advocates provided counseling and legal advocacy to 1,386 individuals experiencing domestic violence. More than $38,000 were given to families in need of rental assistance and relocation support.
Women Aware also executes other ancillary programs that are integral for the provision of global comprehensive services for victims of domestic violence.
Women Aware is the state-designated lead domestic violence agency for middlesex county. We offer comprehensive services to those affected by domestic violence through residential and non-residential programs. Our services include:emergency shelter: our crisis shelter for Women and children fleeing abuse is at a confidential location with 24-hour staffing. We focus on trauma-informed crisis care while offering intensive case management, including safety planning, counseling, housing assistance, advocacy, health education and screening, and translation service. Our hotline is available 24-hours a day, 365 days a year for crisis intervention and resource and referral information for victim-survivors of domestic violence. We have multilingual staff and utilize the language line to respond to language barriers.