For Domestic Violence Survivors and their Family, Friends and Co-workers
How to Get Help
The City of Seattle supports programs and activities that create a comprehensive service delivery system to help survivors gain and maintain safety and address their multiple social and economic needs. Our partners provide an array of services and programs, including:
- Information and assistance
- Safety planning
- Civil legal services for victims of domestic violence
- Education about the dynamics of domestic violence
- Guidance through the numerous social institutions that help survivors leave and/or protect themselves and their children from further abuse
- Accompaniment to criminal or civil legal proceedings when possible and assistance with protection orders
- Referrals to income and employment support
- Access to safe, confidential, short- and long-term housing, and payment for security deposits, utilities, moving expenses and household furnishings
- Provision of or referral to supportive services such as mental health, medical, chemical dependency and legal services
- Interpretation services
The City of Seattle contracts with nonprofit, community-based organizations to provide services. Contracting is determined through a competitive process that is conducted by the Seattle Human Services Department at least once every four years. Funding depends upon program performance and funding availability. The current four-year cycle ends in 2009. The 2008 allocation (City of Seattle General Funds) was $1,122,500 and the 2009 allocation is $1,207,646.
Additionally, the City of Seattle is a recipient of the 2007 “Education, Training, and Enhanced Services to End Violence Against and Abuse of Women with Disabilities Grant Program” from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. This is a three-year collaborative grant program designed to improve mental health/chemical dependency systems that provide services to survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence who have disabilities. Partner agencies are King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Consejo Counseling and Referral Services, New Beginnings, Seattle Counseling Services, and Sound Mental Health.
2009 Funded Agencies and Programs
- Abused Deaf Women’s Advocacy Services serves victims of domestic violence who are deaf, deaf-blind, or hard of hearing.
- Chaya serves South Asian women and children who are experiencing or have experienced domestic violence.
- Consejo Counseling and Referral Service provides services for Latino survivors of domestic violence and their children.
- King County Coalition Against Domestic Violence works to end domestic violence by facilitating collective action for social change through county-wide public policy and education efforts.
- New Beginnings serves victims/survivors of domestic violence who are still with a violent partner, are recently separated or have been out of the relationship for some time.
- Northwest Immigrant Rights Project provides comprehensive immigration legal services and community education to advance the human rights and well-being of low-income immigrants and refugees.
- Northwest Justice Project is a not-for-profit statewide organization that provides free civil legal services to low-income people.
- Northwest Network provides services for lesbian, bisexual, trans, gay, two-spirit and questioning survivors of domestic and dating violence and their children.
- Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA) provides culturally and linguistically appropriate services to refugee and immigrant women who are victims of domestic violence.
- Salvation Army serves women and children survivors of domestic violence.
- Seattle Counseling Services provides services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning identified survivors of domestic violence.
- Seattle Indian Health Board serves domestic violence survivors from various ethnic backgrounds, mainly American Indian/Alaska Natives.
- Sound Mental Health provides comprehensive mental health services throughout King County.
- YWCA Seattle-King-Snohomish County provides specialized services that address the unique issues and barriers faced by victims of domestic violence who are from communities of color, particularly African American women.
Information
For more information, call the Seattle Human Services Department’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention program at 206-233-2774, or e-mail endviolence@seattle.gov.
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