A Woman’s Place (AWP) provides a full range of assistance and support services for victims of domestic abuse and violence and their children, including a free 24-hour confidential hotline, a full-service residential shelter, individual and group counseling, legal and medical advocacy, and a children’s program. As domestic violence is a community issue, requiring community effort and support to successfully eradicate, AWP also provides comprehensive community-based domestic violence training, education, outreach, and advocacy.
Learn more about AWP by exploring the links below. Be sure to click to our Services page for more information on AWP’s complete roster of free, private, and confidential services.
A Woman's Place envisions a society in which all individuals are safe in their intimate and familial relationships and have the space to thrive and develop to their full potential.
A Woman's Place (AWP) is a feminist, community-based social change organization committed to ending intimate and familial violence for all.
We do this by:
1) Enhancing safety for victims, families, and communities;
2) Securing justice for victims;
3) Engaging the community and building its capacity to respond to and prevent domestic
abuse and violence, and;
4) Working to change institutions, systems, and individual practices that condone and
perpetuate violence and abuse.
Founded in 1976 as a storefront, drop-in domestic violence counseling center in Sellersville, Pa., A Woman’s Place (AWP) incorporated as a private, nonprofit organization the following year. Above that storefront center was AWP’s first shelter for women seeking safety from abuse. The first woman seeking safety arrived with her two children at the tiny, one-room shelter apartment on Christmas Eve 1976.
In just one day...2 women miscarried as a result of domestic violence, 3 women were murdered by their intimate partners, 7 children were killed in domestic violence homicides, and 7 babies were born to mothers living in shelters.*
On September 15, 2009, the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) conducted its National Census of Domestic Violence Services for the fourth year in a row. This one-day, unduplicated count of adults and children seeking domestic abuse and violence services nationwide, offers a glimpse of what services domestic violence organizations throughout the country are able to provide and where more resources are needed.
In just one day, the 61 domestic violence organizations throughout the state of Pennsylvania provided services for 2,597 victims. A Woman's Place (AWP), alone, provided services to 79 victims. Although able to provide services for so many people on a single day, there were not enough resources to serve everybody. AWP had to turn away 4 women and 7 children on September 15th due to our shelter being full. Statewide, 365 requests were unmet as a cause of critical shortages of funds and staff to assist the needs of victims.
365 unmet requests in one day translate into more than 133,000 unmet requests in a year. Although there is great work being done there is still more of a demand. At AWP, our goal is bold - to raise $65,000 by June 30, 2010 through our "A Difference In A Day" Campaign. This can only happen with the help of you, our supporter. With a one-time gift of $50 or more from you and each one of our donors, we can meet that goal! It is a simple as clicking here. Every gift makes a difference.
You can track the difference that each donor is making by checking our Web site. We will be updating it weekly to show the progress we are making towards our goal of $65,000!
In just one day....
AWP was able to provide 26.5 hours of counseling, answer 50 hotline calls, and train 169 community members.
What kind of difference can you make... in just one day?
