Find Your State and City's Shelters, Lawyers, Counseling, Domestic Violence Help Here
Here is an excellent web site that provides State-by-State Legal Information (attorney resources) and resources web site for domestic violence (counseling, shelters, etc.)
Click Here - Woman's Law Organization
Here is another site that provides a list of Domestic Violence Agencies on the Internet.
Domestic Violence Agencies, Counseling, and Additional Resources Listed By State - Click Here
THESE STATE LISTINGS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Alabama
- Alabama Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Provides a listing of agencies in various cities and counties.
P.O. Box 4762, Montgomery, AL 36101
Phone:
FAX: 334-832-4803
The Domestic Violence Intervention Center
The Domestic Violence Intervention Center (formerly known as East Alabama Task Force for Battered Women) is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing support and referal to victims of domestic violence in Lee, Chambers, Tallapoosa, Randolph and Macon counties in Alabama.
Safehouse:
Toll-Free:
The Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (ANDVSA)
The Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (ANDVSA) is a statewide coalition made up of twenty-one domestic violence and sexual assault programs. The Network is committed to the elimination of personal and societal violence in the lives of women and children. The ANDVSA web site,
- San Diego Domestic Violence Council: San Diego, California
Provides resources, links and police contacts, and link with YWCA domestic violence help. 1200 Third Avenue, Suite 700
San Diego, CA 92101
San Diego Domestic Violence Hotline:
YWCA: San Diego, California
YWCA-San Diego provides comprehensive programs and services for survivors and their abusers inluding sliding scale counseling, educational and support groups, shelter services and other programs geared to the abatement of domestic violence in San Diego, CA. The YWCA Counseling Center is located at 2550 Garnet Avenue and is part of the Domestic Violence Research and Training Institute/Counseling Center site in the Pacific Beach Area.The Center is located just off Interstate 5 and can be reached reached easily by car or bus. Call
24 Hour Hotline:
The Women's Refuge: Berkeley, California
Families who come to us for service are homeless for many reasons. The majority of these families are victims of domestic violence. We provide safety and security that allow these families to deal with the many issues that are involved in these situations.
The Women's Refuge
P.O. Box 3298
Berkeley CA 94703
The Sparrow Foundation: Colton, CA
To provide a loving, safe Christ-filled home that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of women and their children who have been victims of domestic violence. To use all means necessary to assure a safe environment for the resident women and children. To provide abused women with medical help and vocational training. To help abused women and their children with emotional and spiritual healing through individual love care, counseling and prayer. To reach out separately to the abusive man and offer alcohol and drug dependency recovery and counseling with the goal of restoring families.
Phone:
The Sparrow Foundation
P.O. Box 2253
Colton, CA 92324
UCLA Men and Women's Resource Center: Los Angeles, California
Resources, information and telephone numbers for students in the UCLA area of Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
The Center for Women and Men
Box 951453
2 Dodd Hall
Los Angeles CA 90095-1453
The Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition of Nevada County, California
GRASS VALLEY and TRUCKEE CRISIS LINES
Laura's House: Orange County, CA
A shelter for Women and Children. South Orange County California:
24 Hour Hotline
Business Line
E-mail: information@laurashouse.org
Marin Abused Women's Services (MAWS) : Marin County, CA
Marin Abused Women's Services (MAWS) provides emergency hotlines, housing facilities, support groups and a men's program.
Women's English Hotline
Women's Spanish Hotline
Men's Hotline
Maitri: San Francisco, CA
Maitri is a free, confidential, nonprofit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, that helps South Asian women facing domestic violence, emotional abuse or family conflict. We provide peer support and referrals to legal help, emergency shelters and counselors.
La Casa de las Madras: San Francisco, CA
Offering Shelter, Advocacy and Support Services to Battered Women and their Children.
Adult Line:
Teen Line:
Domestic Violence Project of Santa Clara County, CA
Comprehensive resources, contacts, hotlines and information for Santa Clara County. Includes educational/informational resources. They have over 1200 indexed links to internet resources on violence, over 100 links to relevant online journals, art by victims and award winning editorial illustrators, a 4000 item bibliography, medico-legal protocols, battered women's stories with photos, downloadable posters, essays by youth, newsletters, and more.
Center for Domestic Violence Prevention: San Mateo, CA
Offering in-house counseling and support services to residents in our shelter program. We are committed to ending the inter-generational cycle of violence.
Business Line:
Our 24-hour support line:
Women's Shelter Program: San Luis Obispo County, CA
WSP offers two distinct programs. The first program, the Emergency Shelter Program, consists of the 10 bed safe house which provides safe shelter, food and clothing to victims and their children who are in immediate danger due to domestic violence. The Emergency Shelter Program also offers counseling to women and children, advocacy with legal services and social service organizations, and case management in order to help the residents establish violence-free and economically feasible lives after they leave the shelter.
The second program, geared toward domestic violence victims who are not in immediate danger, consists of support services. There are two main support services. The Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence (CADV) is a sliding-scale counseling center which offers individual and/or group counseling to any family member affected by domestic violence. CADV also offers some group counseling and accepts Victims of Crime (VOC) funds. There are several groups offered at different sites throughout the county. CADV offers a group for Spanish speaking women and lesbians experiencing domestic violence. Groups for children, teens, and women are also offered.
The second support services is the Legal Program, which consists of both a Domestic Violence Temporary Restraining Order Clinic and assistance with custody issues in domestic violence cases where the parents are unmarried. Potential clients of this program must meet certain income guidelines.
HOTLINE
Cornerstone Counseling Center: Ventura, CA
Offers domestic violence counseling for batterers.
- Crossroads: Larimer County, Colorado
The mission of Crossroads Safehouse is to end family violence in Larimer County, Colorado. Crossroads provides emergency shelter, counseling, and support services to victims of domestic violence.
Crossroads Safehouse 24-hours:
- Abuse Counseling and Treatment, Inc.: Fort Myers, Florida
Abuse Counseling and Treatment, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Services include emergency shelter, 24-hr. crisis hotline, advocacy, support groups, batterers' intervention program, and children's program.
24-Hour Hotline
Betty Griffin House: St Augustine, Florida
St. Johns County's only Safety Shelter for abused women and children. Confidential counseling, legal assistance, community education, and a 24-hour domestic and sexual violence hotline. We also provide all services to men who are abused with separate accommodations.
24-Hour Crisis Hotline:
REFUGE HOUSE: Tallahassee, Florida
Domestic Violence/Rape Crisis. Serving 8 Counties: Franklin, Gadsen, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla.
The mission of Refuge House is to provide direct services to battered women, their children and sexual assault surviviors, as well as to work to eliminate the conditions in society that allow such violence to continue.
REFUGE HOUSE Provides: Emergency Shelter, Counseling Programs, Injunction Assistance, Sexual Violence Program, Volunteer Opportunities
24 Hour Crisis Line:
P.O. Box 20910 Tallahassee, Florida 32316-0910
- Men Stopping Violence (MSV): Atlanta, Georgia
Men Stopping Violence (MSV) is a profeminist, private, non-profit organization based in Atlanta, Georgia dedicated to ending violence against women. MSV offers re-education programs for men wanting to change their violent and abusive behavior, training programs for concerned community leaders about how to intervene effectively, plus many other activities in the effort to put an end to violence against women. Also in Douglasville, Georgia.
Citizens Against Violence (CAVINC): Counties of Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Jenkins, and Screven, Georgia
Victim Legal Advocacy (Assist victims in gaining temporary protective orders.)
Transitional Housing (Next Step Program-Subsidized apartments to transition clients from emergency shelter to independent living.
Victim Support Groups (Support groups help victims recover emotionally and develop skills required to return to normalves)
Outreach and Education (Informing the community about the problem, what services we offer and how people can help us).
Call anytime:
Outside Bulloch County
- Parents And Children Together (PACT)
Pu'uhonua. Provides counseling for victims of domestic violence, legal assistance, child care, evidence collection, and police intervention.
- Idaho Domestic Violence Programs
This is a listing of many domestic violence programs in the State of Idaho.
- A Friends Place: Chicago, IL
A free walkin counseling center for women and children in Chicago, IL. Friends also provides a a 24 hour crisis referral Hotline, court advocacy, and community education.
Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
A Friends Place
P. O. Box 5185
Evanston, IL 60204 (773) 274-5232 or
Apna Ghar: Chicago, IL
Apna Ghar is a domestic violence shelter serving primarily Asian women and children, and is the first Asian shelter of its kind in the Mid-Western United States. Apna Ghar takes its name from a Hindu-Urdu phrase meaning "Our Home", and since January 1990, it has served over 3100 domestic violence clients.
Contact Apna Ghar
4753 North Broadway
Suite 502
Chicago, IL 60640
Office:
Fax: 773-334-0963
Women's Crisis Center Of Metro East: Belleville, Illinois
We are a comprehensive agency offering a 24hour crisis hotline, emergency shelter services, court and police advocacy, individual and group counseling, nursing services, art therapy and a prevention/education program.
P.O. Box 831 Belleville, Illinois, 62222
Hotlines:
Belleville..........(618) 235-0892
East St. Louis......(618) 875-7970
Chester.............(618) 826-5959
Waterloo............(618) 939-8114
TDD
1-800-924-0096 Monroe/Randolph Co. Only
- Non-Violent Alternatives Counseling Services: Shelbyville and Indianapolis, Indiana
Provides counseling services. Web Page has educational information on non-violent parenting, etc. Browse Site for info.
- Council on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence: Sioux City, Iowa
The Council on Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence provides support, advocacy and a safe environment to empower adults and children who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault. Â Through leadership and education, CSADV works collaboratively with the community to promote social change and end violence.
Phone:
- Caring Unlimited: York County Maine
Caring Unlimited, York County Maine's Domestic Violence Program.
Post Office Box 590, Sanford, Maine 04073
Offices:
24-Hour Response Hotline:
- Emerge: Cambridge, Mass
We are the oldest batterers intervention program in the United States. We run groups for heterosexual men, gay men, lesbians and adolescents. We run groups in English, Spanish, Khmer, Vietnamese and Chinese. We also provide extensive training in domestic violence and working with batterers. Offices in Cambridge, Quincy, Lowell, and Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Main Office: 2380 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 101, Cambridge, MA 02140
Call
Men's Resource Center of Western Mass
The MRC has a wide variety of men's programs, including a batterer's treatment program.
Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project (GMDVP)
Our services: founded in 1994 by a survivor of domestic violence, we are a grassroots, non-profit organization. We offer community education, emergency housing, a 24 hour crisis line, referrals, court advocacy, and information to allow gay, bisexual, and transgender men in crisis to remove themselves from violent situations and relationships.
GMDVP, PMB 131, 955 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Fax: 617 354 6072, Bus:
Crisis:
RESPOND: Somerville, Massachusetts
A safe place in a residential setting to give women and their children the opportunity to get away from abuse and begin to heal their lives. We house women and their children for eight weeks.
Individual counseling around the issues of abuse. We provide, by phone or in person, information on legal issues, welfare rights, the courts, restraining orders, housing and the names of other shelters.
Crisis Groups -- A safe place to express feelings, to give and receive support from other battered women, and to explore alternatives.
Transitional Groups -- A place for women who are out of crisis to discuss their lives, and to learn assertiveness, empowerment and communication skills.
Parent Education Groups -- A confidential setting for survivors of domestic violence to discuss parenting issues An understanding voice to give support and offer options in a time of crisis.
Domestic violence affects children too. These are groups where children can safely express their feelings and receive support.
24-hour hotline
Staff speak: Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese and French languages.
You can also contact RESPOND at:
PO Box 555 Somerville, MA 02143
Crisis Hotline/Direct Service Office:
Business Office:
Danvers Massachusetts Police Department
The Danvers Massachusetts Police Department page offers local information for Massachusetts residents, including current laws, police officers duties regarding restraining orders, hotline numbers, local numbers to DA's Office, victims rights, and more. They also have links to other sites as well.
Help for Abused Women and their Children (HAWC): North Shore of Massachusetts
Help for Abused Women and their Children (HAWC) provides comprehensive services to abused women in 23 communities on the North Shore of Massachusetts.
27 Congress Street, Salem, Massachusetts
Telephone: