Goals
- To provide safe shelter and services to abused women and their children
- To provide immediate support counseling via 24-hour support line
- To provide support services to clients (residents and non-residents)
- To provide advocacy support to clients in their dealings with community agencies and services
- To act as an ongoing resource and continuing support to victims and survivors
- To act as a liaison and referral source for clients to appropriate helping agencies
- To partner with like-minded organizations for the overall goal of ending violence against women
- To provide a trauma-informed response to family violence throughout all levels of the organization
Programs
- To provide programs and support to other community based programs which are designed to prevent, treat and alleviate problems related to family violence.
Education
- To provide leadership in educating the community with regard to all issue of family violence
- To provide and facilitate education for the growth of clients
- To provide educational opportunities for continuing development of staff and board members
- To participate in projects which further the knowledge and awareness of family violence
- To work with other agencies to educate the public about healthy relationships
Administration
- To employ an Executive Director for the overall administration, maintenance and supervision of the shelter, the building, the staff and they clients
- To operate a transition house, employing the required staff
- To ensure that an effective and comprehensive financial system is maintained
- To function as a policy-making and decision-making body and to lobby government and community agencies in relation to family violence
- To keep accurate and confidential records of people served, of dispositions and of follow-up services provided
- To evaluate periodically and consistently the effectiveness of our services
