La Casa de las Madres
La Casa de las Madres offers comprehensive, strengths-based support services. Its anis an unwavering source of safety for survivors. They provide safety and support in times of crisis and work with survivors to increase their access to resources and tools that will help them build lives free from fear and abuse.
Their mission is to respond to calls for help from domestic violence victims, of all ages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. They seek to prevent future violence by educating the community and by redefining public perceptions about domestic violence.
Domestic violence victims should be able to access safety as well as services supporting their transition to a violence-free life. La Casa provides that bridge for battered women, teens, and children seeking to escape abuse in their intimate partnerships.
Their comprehensive services are multilingual. Their family advocates are also on-site with the San Francisco Police Department’s Domestic Violence Response Unit.
La Casa also can shelter and provide comprehensive advocacy and support services to 35 women and children per night. Their shelter program also utilizes family-based interventions, working with women and their children together as a family unit to strengthen families in crisis and break the intergenerational cycle of violence.
Safe Havens Project addresses the needs of domestic violence victims as they develop and implement custody arrangements with their batterers. La Casa’s Community Education and Outreach Program provides outreach to media, schools, corporations, and community groups.
vAll of their program activities seek to prevent domestic violence among teens and adults, give voice to silenced victims of domestic violence, and motivate social change through community education and public awareness.
