domestic violence

All services provided by The Center are confidential in nature. No one will know that you and your children have accessed services unless you tell them.

The Center provides the following services to women and children affected by domestic violence:

• Safe Shelter:

Women and children come to The Center when they have no place else to turn. They come from homes where violence is the rule rather than the exception. The Center?s 35-bed facility offers short-term emergency shelter and gives survivors of family violence a place to begin healing their physical and emotional wounds, protecting them until they are able to find more permanent housing away from their abusers. Without this, many women and children would be forced to stay in their current homes, where their lives are in danger on a daily basis or set out on their own without support, living in cars or on the streets.

• Case Management:

All clients who come into The Center?s shelter are assigned a Case Manager who serves as each client?s link to services necessary to self-sufficiency. These services are accessed both in-house and from community providers. In-house services can include:

• Individual and Group Counseling
  
• Assistance in filing for Orders of Protection at any of
  the Peoria, Tazewell, or Woodford County Courthouses
  
• Medical Advocacy
  
• Education
  
• Life-skills training through individualized and group
  instruction
  
• Children's Services

If you live beyond the area served by The Center, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY for the deaf) for crisis intervention, information and referrals to local programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Hotline phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in English and Spanish. Hotline staff and volunteers also have access to translators in 139 languages.