Our Services
Our services are listed below but are not limited to what is listed here. Please ask us for what you or your family member needs and we will figure out if we can help you.
- Navigating though our system and getting the help they need
We help our clients navigate though our complicated system to get benefits for themselves and their families. We also help fill out some of the paperwork that might be hard to understand.
We help our clients find shelter though local shelters in Washington State. If someone is in need of leaving the state to be safe we will also help find safe shelter across the entire United States.
- Keeping safe by creating a safety plan
Safety planning is one of the most important things to do when you are involved in a domestic violent situation. Safety planning ranges from gathering important documents and hiding them till the time is right to leave, to knowing where the perpetrator travels and hangs out at and avoid those places. If practiced it can save a life.
- Education on learning how to stay safe for life
Learning the root or the core reason why we stay in a domestic violent situation and dealing with those core issues can keep you safe for life. Working with one of our advocates we can help you walk though your fears and deal with them.
- Advocacy based counseling
Advocacy-based counseling means the involvement of a client with an advocate counselor in an individual, family, or group session with the primary focus on safety planning and on empowerment of the client through reinforcing the client's autonomy and self-determination. Advocacy-based counseling uses nonvictim blaming problem-solving methods that include:
(1) Identifying the barriers to safety;
(2) Developing safety checking and planning skills;
(3) Clarifying issues;
(4) Providing options;
(5) Solving problems;
(6) Increasing self-esteem and self-awareness; and
(7) Improving and implementing skills in decision making, parenting, self-help, and self-care.
- Access to our resource center
We have computers and books available to our clients use as resources. They can use the computer to brose the internet or type up a resume.
Our legal advocates help navigate our clients though legal needs from protection orders to changing their social security number to go into hiding. They can be at the scene when the police are called to help comfort and explain what the police are saying. They can also go to court dates and act as a liaison and can help to make a victim feel safer.
We are continuing to add more services to our list. Some additional services we are looking to add in the future.
Mail service – to receive important documents at a safe location
Phone services – a safe place to receive phone calls
Support groups – where our clients can get group support on what they are going though