How does HomeSafe help?

HomeSafe addresses this crisis by providing a unique, long-term, comprehensive solution that goes beyond emergency services.  HomeSafe is a collaboration of seven non-profit domestic violence and housing service agencies formed to build and operate four long-term housing facilities totaling 96 units in Santa Clara County by 2007.

HomeSafe's long-term shared housing communities are aligned with programs that help survivors make permanent life changes. Women and children are enabled to transition into survivors who break the intergenerational abuse cycle. These facilities will provide new, all-encompassing services customized to meet the unique needs of each victim, women and children.

Services include:

In order to achieve and maintain a violence-free life, battered women must address these issues:

• safety
• self-sufficiency
• cultural issues
• children’s needs
• psychological recovery
• housing

By building on personal success, the HomeSafe approach fosters positive behavior, self-esteem, marketable job skills, life-skills, and community citizenship.

Listen to the short video clip of how one amazing woman, a former victim of violence, had the strength to become a survivor.
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