Safe Homes Project
Non-Residential Services: Call our hotline, 718-499-2151, and speak to one of our advocates to arrange an intake appointment in English or Spanish.
Shelter: Call the NYC 24-hour domestic violence hotline, 1-800-621 HOPE (4673) which can locate available beds in safe areas for the caller.
Training & Education: To schedule a workshop, have SHP on a panel, or to have us participate in your health fair, community event, or domestic violence awareness event, call our office at 718-788-6947 and speak with the program director. Click here to download flyers.
We provide shelter and non-residential services to survivors of domestic violence
SAFE HOMES PROJECT SERVICES
Non-Residential Services:
The Safe Homes Project provides hotline crisis intervention, short-term individual counseling, safety planning, information, referrals, and advocacy. These services are intended to help restore a sense of personal power to survivors and help them understand their options as they plan for their safety and the safety of their children.
Our support groups (day or evening, English or Spanish, with child-care that can be arranged), are places where survivors can meet together, finding comfort and acceptance, as well as gaining strength. Our group facilitators are ready to provide the group with support and information in order to assist members towards greater safety and autonomy.
We will assist survivors with legal, criminal justice, public assistance, child welfare, and immigration needs, as well as court-related needs, including orders of protection, divorce, custody, and visitation. SHP shares a partnership with Brooklyn Legal Aid, and eligible participants can be referred for legal consultation and representation.
Residential Services:
Our shelter is for female survivors of domestic violence (including lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women), in immediate danger and their minor children. In order to access shelter, survivors must have both a telephone and an in-person intake. Shelter residents receive all of the same services listed under non-residential, (crisis intervention, individual counseling, safety-planning, information, and advocacy), in addition to emergency services to meet immediate needs after having fled domestic violence.
Residents in the shelter are assisted in seeking and applying for any housing for which they are eligible. Through our collaboration with Columbia’s Workplace Center, they are also assisted in planning for, continuing, or seeking employment through our Career Clubs and other related supports.
Residents meet together in their own domestic violence support group and have regular community meetings facilitated by our 24-hour shelter staff. Mothers are assisted in planning for their children with regard to school transfers, medical, social, and other needs. Children are provided with social-recreational activities, homework help, counseling, and referrals as needed.
Training and Education:
The Safe Homes Project provides workshops and training about domestic/intimate partner violence ranging from 1 hour to a full day for professional and community groups. These include workshops about assessment and response, the impact on children, partner abuse in the LGBTQ community, youth relationship violence, and available services.
Services are Free and Confidential
All SHP services are conducted in English and Spanish.
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