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Most Importantly Are You Safe? Think of yourself and your children. Make that call that can change your life. Call one of the shelters or crisis lines listed to help you and your children break that cycle of abuse. Site Directory Monarch Children's Justice and Advocacy Center Monarch Children's Justice & Advocacy Center is a place where trauma stops and healing begins. Working together, a multidisciplinary team is changing the way the community responds to child victims of sexual abuse. This multidisciplinary approach offers child victims and their families a place where they can access the help they need to heal emotionally and physically from abuse. Social Security Administration This web site provides information about Retirement,Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits, and Supplemental Security Income. The site also provides wage reporting information for employers. The Center for Children with Special Needs This site offers information and resources for parents and professionals who advocate and care for children with special health care needs.
"Children with special health care needs include all children who have, or are at increased risk for, chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. It is estimated that 18 million children in the United States have these special health needs"
A federally funded, comprehensive child and family development program that includes preschool, home visits, health and developmental screenings, social service referrals, and parent involvement opportunities.
Support Programs that provide emotional support
and information to families of children with special needs and/or disabilities.
The United Nations is offering the website, as a tool to relieve hunger. All you do is click on a button and somewhere in the world a hungry person gets a meal to eat at no cost to you. Corporate sponsors pay for the meals. You can use it once a day. Pass the word!
Infant Toddler Early Intervention Program (ITEIP) Early intervention in Washington State is a collection of services families may need for their infants or toddlers with disabilities. Early intervention during the first years of a child's life can make a big difference in the future of that child.
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) The Medical Assistance Administration's Children's Health Insurance Program. Now many families can get free or low-cost health insurance for their kids.
The Washington State Child Care Resource Network of 18 community-based, private, nonprofit childcare resource and referral agencies across Washington State (USA). Offer consumer education, training and technical assistance to parents, childcare providers, employers and the community.
Division of Child Support Resource Center The Division of Child Support (DCS) is the state agency that administers state and federal child support laws. If you are a custodial parent, a non-custodial parent, or the custodian of a dependent child, the resource center will help you to understand DCS and the services we provide. DCS provides various services to parents and to custodians which include:
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Welcome to the Domestic Violence Resource Guide for Washington State
This website is dedicated to women and men that were scared and afraid to speak out and died afraid and alone. Domestic Violence has no gender bias it happens to individuals of all ages, all colors, all religions, all classes, all education levels and all sexual orientations.
- Thurston- Safeplace a Rape Relief and Womens Shelter Services Crisis (360) 754-6300 or (800) 364-1776, V/TTY 24 Hours safeplace@tss.net
- Benton- Columbia Basin Domestic Violence Services (509) 582-9841, (800) 648-1277
- Bremerton Alive (360) 479-1980
- Clallam- Forks Abuse Program (360) 374-2273
- Clallam- Healthy Families of Clallam County (360) 452-HELP
- Clark- YWCA Clark County/Safe Choice (360) 695-0501
- Columbia- Inland Counseling Network (800) 382-4039, (509) 382-4039
- Cowlitz- Emergency Support Shelter (360) 636-8471
- Franklin-Columbia Basin Domestic Violence Services (509) 582-9841, (800) 648-1277
- Grant- New Hope Domestic Violence Services (888) 560-6027
- Island- Citizens Against Domestic Violence
(360) 675-2332, (800) 215-5667
- Jefferson- Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program of Jefferson County (360) 385-5291
- Lewis- Human Response Network a Domestic Violence Shelter and Support (800) 244-7414
- Safechoice Domestic Violence Shelter and Support (800) 695-0167
- South West Washington Emergency Support Shelter (360) 425-1176
- Washington State Domestic Violence Hotline will connect you to any Shelter in the State (800) 562-6025
- King- Eastside Domestic Violence 24HR Crisis Line (425) 746-1940
- Catherine Booth House in Seattle, A Domestic Violence Shelter that helps Women and Families (206) 324-4943
- South King County (DAWN) Domestic Abuse Womens Network a Shelter Helping Women and Families (425) 622-1881, Emergency (425) 656-7867, dawnetwork@aol.com
- King- New Beginnings a Domestic Violence Shelter Helping Women and Families (206) 522-9472
- King- Domestic Violence Shelter YWCA Shelter (206) 461-4882
- King- Broadview Emergency Shelter (206) 622-4933
- King- Asian&Pacific Islander Women& Family Safety Center
(206) 467-9976
- King- Refugee Women's Alliance Domestic Violence Program
(206) 721-0243
- King- Salvation Army Domestic Violence Program (206) 324-4943
- King- YWCA- Anita Vista (253) 850-2181
- King County Sexual Assault Resource Center (800) 825-RAPE(7273) 24HR Crisis Line
- Kitsap- YWCA- Kitsap County (800) 500-5513
- Kittitas- Aspen(Abuse, Support&Prevention Education Now)
(509) 925-9384, dvsa@cwcmh.org
- Klickitat- Programs for Peaceful Living (800) 866-9372
- Lewis- Families in Crisis (360) 740-8071
- Lincoln- Family Resource Center (800) 923-0932, (509) 725-4357, famrc@sisna.com
- Mason- Turning Pointe (877) 923-1212, (360) 432-1212
- Okanogan- Family Support Center (509) 684-6139, nfoll@plix.com
- Pacific- Crisis Support Network (800) 435-7276, csn@willapabay.org
- Pierce- Korean Women's Association Domestic Violence (253) 535-4202
- Pierce- YWCA of Tacoma/Pierce County (253) 383-2593
- San Juan- Domestic Violence& Sexual Assault Services of the San Juan Islands(360) 378-2345, Friday Harbor dvsassanjuan@rockisland.com
Orcas Island dvsaorcas@rockisland.com
- Skagit- Skagit Domestic Violence& Sexual Assault Services
(360) 336-9591 (Office), (800) 726-6010 (Crisis Line)
- Skamania- Skamania County Council on Domestic Violence& Sexual Assault (509) 427-4210, (877) 427-4210
- Snohomish- Snohomish County Center for Battered Women
(425) 252-2873
- Stevens- Adams County Resource Center (509) 660-1067 Ritzville,
(509) 989-1027 Othello
- Whatcom Crisis Services- Crisis Line (360) 734-7271
- Whatcom- Womancare Shelter- Crisis Line (360) 734-3438, shelter@cnw.com
- Whatcom- Lummi Family Services (360) 738-3959
- Whatcom- Lummi Victims of Crime (360) 384-2285, lvoc@lummi-nation.bia.edu
- Whatcom- Whatcom County Crisis Services (877) 715-1563
- Whitman- Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse (509) 332-4357, atvp@turbonet.com
- Yakima- Lower Valley Crisis Support Services (509) 837-6689
- Yakima- YWCA- Family Crisis Program (509) 248-7796
- Yakima- Family Crisis Network (509) 447-5483
- Wahkiakum- St.James Domestic Violence Program (360) 795-6400
- Wahkiakum- Charolotte House (360) 795-6400
- Walla Walla- YWCA- Walla Walla (509) 529-9922
- DV Center of Grays Harbor- Crisis Line (800) 562-6025
- King- Abused Deaf Womens Advocacy Services (ADWAS)
(206) 726-0093 (TTY only), adwas@adwas.org
- King- Chaya is a community based non profit organization serving South Asian Women in time of Crisis and Need. Helpline (206) 325-0325, Toll-Free (877) 92CHAYA
- King- Jewish Family Service- Project DVORA (206) 461-3240
- King- The NW Network of Bisexual, Trans & Lesbian Survivors of Abuse (206) 568-7777, info@nwnetwork.org
- Phoenix Place-Wenatchee- Crisis Line (509) 663-1952
- The Support Center- Omak- Crisis Line (888) 826-3221
- YWCA- Spokane- Crisis Line (509) 326-2255
International Resources for Women
- Hot Peach Pages.net
Global inventory of abuse hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centres and women's organizations, plus index of domestic violence resources in over 70 languages.
- National Domestic Violence Helpline for Men
Toll-Free (877) 643-1120 Access Code # 0757 - Washington State Domestic Violence Hotline
uses gender neutral language and is mandated to be inclusive of all abuse victims (800) 562-6025
Is where you can download self help forms if you can't afford an attorney and do it yourself. There you can find child support worksheets, parenting plans, protection orders, legal separation papers, divorce forms and much more.
Definition of Violence
- vi·o·lence
1: exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse (as in effecting illegal entry into a house) b : an instance of violent treatment or procedure,
2: injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation : OUTRAGE
3: intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive action or force
4: undue alteration (as of wording or sense in editing a text)
WROC stands for Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition. WROC's mission is to effect economic and social justice by educating and empowering low income parents. WROC is made up of individuals and groups whose purpose is to empower people receiving public assistance to make positive changes in the welfare system.
- WROC (206) 324-3063 in the Seattle area or (877) 330-3063, (360) 352-9716 in Olympia
- Columbia Legal Services
(360) 943-6260, (800) 260-6260
- Thurston County Volunteer Legal Clinic (360) 705-8194
- Thurston County Family Law Facilitator (360) 709-3274
- Tenants Union (206) 723-0500 in Seattle, TDD at (206) 723-0523, (360) 943-3036 in Olympia
- POAP- Protection Order Advocacy Program (206) 205-5555
In the beginning, I was young . . . he was handsome. He said I was beautiful, smart, worthy of love . . . made me feel that way. And so we were married, walking joyfully together down a church aisle, our union blessed by God.
Then came the angry words . . . the verbal tearing apart. . . . Now I was made to feel ugly, unintelligent, unworthy of any love, God's or man's.
Next came the beatings . . . unrelenting violence . . . unceasing pain. I shouldn't stay, but this is my husband . . . promised forever. He says I deserve it . . . maybe I do . . .
if I could just be good. I feel so alone . . . doesn't God hear me when I cry out silently as I lie in bed each night?
Finally came the release, the realization. It's not me . . . it's him. . . .
I am worthy of love, God's and man's. One spring morning, my heart was filled with hope and with fear now only of starting over on my own. And so again I walked . . . down the hallway of our apartment building . . . never again to be silent . . . never again to live with that kind of violence, to suffer that kind of pain.
"A Battered Wife"
Admit that you Hurt
Often it's hard to admit we're hurting. "I'm O.K.," we stoically tell ourselves. "He can't hurt me," we tell others, and "Big girls and boys don't cry."
Admitting you're hurting is one of the first steps toward healing. Running away from pain is the source of all emotional illness, says M. Scott Peck in The Road Less Traveled. To be emotionally healthy, we must embrace the pain of life's hurts.
Part of taking a realistic look at our hurt is looking at the "payoff" we get from holding on to it. Does it allow us to maintain a false "poor me" stance? Is it a protective shield saying, "Don't touch; I'm fragile"? Is it a way of escaping the risks of ever loving again?
A friend once told me, "If I let go of the anger and bitterness that have filled me for so long, I'm afraid there will be nothing left but an empty shell. That anger is all I have to let me know I'm alive."
By M. Elaine Dillhunt, O.S.B.
This World is our Heaven on Earth
In the New Millennium of the Aquarian Age, we are learning to go within to find our savior. We are the power we are looking for. Each one of us is totally linked with the Universe and with Life.
"Anonymous"
Spirit
- Is an invisible force
made visible in all life.
By Maya Angelou
Encouraging Quotes
- Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
- Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
- Hold to your ethics and principles and do not for a moment consider compromising what you believe to be right. Acting with integrity is the key.
- Berry, Dawn Bradley. Domestic Violence Sourcebook. Los Angeles, CA, RGA Publishing Group, Inc., 1995
- Evans, Patricia. Verbal Abuse: Survivors Speak Out. Holbrook, MA, Bob Adams, Inc., 1993
- Jones, Ann. Next Time She'll Be Dead. Boston, MA, Beacon Press, 1994
- Lobel, Kerry, Editor. Naming The Violence: Speaking Out About Lesbian Battering. Seattle, WA, The Seal Press, 1986
- Mariani, Cliff. Domestic Violence Survival Guide. Flushing, NY, Looseleaf Law Publications, Inc., 1996
- Nicarthy, Ginny. Getting Free: A Handbook For Women In Abusive Relationships. Seattle, WA, The Seal Press, 1984
- Nicarthy, Ginny; Karen Merriam; and Sandra Coffman. Talking It Out: A Guide To Groups For Abused Women. Seattle, WA, The Seal Press, 1986
- Russell, Diana E. Rape In Marriage. New York, NY, MacMillan, 1982
- Schecter, Susan. Women And Male Violence. Boston, MA, South End Press, 1983
- White, Evelyn C. Chain, Chain, Change: For Black Women Dealing With Physical And Emotional Abuse. Seattle, WA, The Seal Press, 1985
- Wsititz, Janet Geringer. Struggle For Intimacy. Pompano Beach, FL, Health Communications, 1985
- Zambrano, Myrna M. Mejor Sola Que Mal Acompanada: For The Latina In An Abusive Relationship. Seattle, WA, The Seal Press, 1985
- Peck, Scott M. The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978
- Peck, Scott M. A World Waiting to be Born: Civility Rediscovered New York: Bantam Books, 1993
- Davis, Diane. Something is Wrong at My House. Seattle: Parenting Press, 1984. The story of a boy living in a violent home who deals with feelings of rage, fear, and despair and learns how to cope with his feelings constructively and how to find help. For ages 4-10.
- Hochban, Ty. Hear My Roar: A Story of Family Violence. New York: Annick Press,1994. The story of a happy family of bears who survive through a hard summer when the father develops a drinking problem and becomes violent. The author's introduction suggests ways that parents and kids in counseling can use the book to spend time together and discuss feelings. Ages 5 and up.
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