Shelter Inc

Programs: Domestic violence: to ensure domestic violence primary and secondary victim support and advocacy services remain available and accessible. To enhance and sustain victim services through systems change and community coordinated response throughout the service area as well as state and national systems/social change opportunities focused on the dynamics and root causes of domestic violence. Hope shores alliance provided hotline help & support to 750 people, 3,833 emergency shelter bed-nights, safe shelter to 175 survivors, 3,080 incidents of supportive advocacy and listening, 157 instances of legal advocacy and court accompaniment, individual advocacy to 300 survivors, 50 hours of support groups, 860 hours of counseling, 159 hours of children? S activities and childcare.

supportive housing: to provide access to long-term (up to 24 months) safe, affordable housing for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their dependent children. Additionally, the program provides advocacy, support and education focused on assisting victims in transitioning from homelessness to permanent housing through 24 months of transitional supportive housing assistance and support. For the fiscal year 2017, hope shores alliance provided transitional supportive housing to 27 adults and 43 children.

sexual assault: to increase access and availability of primary and secondary victim immediate response as well as historical post-vicarious trauma advocacy and support through direct services, building and sustaining community coordinated capacity as well as local, state and national social/systems change focused on the dynamics and root causes of sexual assault. The agency has two sexual assault response teams that provide 24/7/365 day per year sexual assault advocacy through the collaborative sart team of prosecuting attorney, law enforcement and hospital staff on each team providing a trauma-informed response to rape victims. In fy 2017 our advocates provided approximately 70 hours of supportive advocacy for rape victims in emergency rooms.