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Mission: The Houston Area Women''s Center provides emergency safe shelter, individual and group counseling, and support services including housing and legal advocacy to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, as well as to their friends and family. The Women''s Center has rape crisis and domestic violence hotlines, both of which operate 24-hours a day. All services are provided in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The Women's Center educates and informs the community in order to prevent and eliminate the causes of domestic and sexual violence. Educational presentations are made to schools, faith-based communities, law enforcement, medical professionals and other community groups.
Programs: The Houston Area Women's Center's programs include a hotline, residential, nonresidential and community education components. All services are provided free of cost. The Women's Center serves all women, men, and children, regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, faith, ethnicity, or socioeconomic background.
The Hotline program provides a domestic violence hotline and a sexual assault hotline. Both hotlines are open 24-hours a day, and can be answered in almost any language. The hotline provides crisis intervention and access to the counseling and shelter programs.
The residential program provides safe, emergency shelter for 125 women and children, and domestic violence or sexual assault survivors. Survivors can stay in the shelter for up to 90 days. The shelter includes not just residential space, but an onsite daycare and Houston Independent School District K-5 elementary school, as well as a job training facility for adults.
The non-residential program provides individual and group counseling for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault--women, children, teens, and men. This program also provides housing assistance including rental and utility assistance as well as legal advocacy for survivors, and court-based advocacy for children involved as victims/witnesses in the criminal justice system. The Women's Center provides domestic violence support groups for both adults and their children. Friends and family members of survivors can also access support group services.
The community education program provides education and training on the prevention and elimination of domestic violence and sexual assault. Education programs are provided in English, Spanish and Vietnamese. Teen dating violence prevention programs target middle and high school teens. Prevention programs are also targeted to other underserved populations such as gays and lesbians, the elderly, and people with disabilities.