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Domestic Sites

Domestic Violence

The Safe Homes Project

Brooklyn, NY

www.goodshepherds.org

GSV Role

There is one GSV at the Safe Homes Project who will provide a range of direct supports and activities to shelter residents and their children.

This includes accompaniment for women to various appointments related to health, housing, and benefits; providing social/recreational childcare groups including story-telling, arts & crafts, homework help and games; assisting with house meetings and support groups; and participating in regular staff team meetings and trainings.

Safe Homes ProjectInitiated in 1976, the Safe Homes Project (SHP) is a community-based domestic violence advocacy and service program which provides a hotline, counseling, safety-planning and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence (most of whom are 19-24 year-old women) and their children, and runs a 20-bed shelter. SHP also provides education and training about domestic and intimate partner violence to professional and community groups throughout New York, works to improve laws and policies affecting survivors, and provides targeted services for special populations, including Spanish-speakers, youth, and LGBTQ survivors of partner violence. SHP is committed to working to eradicate domestic and partner violence and to providing the support, information, and advocacy needed for individuals and communities to live safely.

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