Newhouse

The Shelter employs 15 or more trained Advocates and two Court Advocates to answer each call to our 24-hour citywide domestic violence hotline. In a trauma-informed manner, the Advocates respond to a diverse range of domestic violence-related questions, share referrals and local resources to meet inquiries, promote safety planning, and provide crisis intervention. Our growing legal team is led by our Attorney, barred in Missouri and Kansas, and now includes two Court Advocates who also respond to concerns regarding Orders of Protection and navigating the legal system. In 2023, our Advocates responded to 15,047 hotline calls, 598 survivors received transformative services, and we provided 17,110 safe days and nights to survivors.

The Children's Center for Education and Healing provides age-appropriate, trauma-informed therapeutics and activities to help children recover from trauma, build resiliency, and enhance their learning skills. The team supports children from age newborn to 18. Two full-time children's therapists employ evidence and research-based practices during individual and group therapy sessions, along with parenting sessions that are unique to each individual's trauma recovery needs. The director, a certified teacher, also provides students in grades K-12 with individualized lessons plans to embrace the child's strengths to grow academically. In our Early Learning Center for children ages six weeks to five years, we employ four children's advocates to provide childcare centered around social and emotional learning. All services are free to the families accessing our services. In 2023, 85 children received 12,190 hours of educational support and childcare.

Newhouse celebrated 53 years of lifesaving work as an emergency shelter for those fleeing domestic abuse. We provide safe shelter, healing therapy for all ages, legal support, full-time childcare, nourishing meals, clothing and all other basic living necessities, case management, job readiness training and employment, education advancement, transportation, and transitional housing support. Our direct services program provides a wide array of wrap-around services to provide life skills and tools to empower survivors on their journey towards whole-person healing and self-sufficiency. For adult survivors, we provide trauma-recovery services while supporting their progress goal to live a violent-free and self-sustainable life. In 2023, Newhouse accomplished the following: (1) new event revenue records for the pop up bar ($168,000), Gala over $1,000,000, (2) grew legal department to 4 staff (3) welcomed 1,221 new donors, including 66 new monthly donors, (4) launched a community action team to bring our community impact vision to life, (5) more than 65 children participated in our 10-week summer camp, (6) CEO provided domestic violence education to more than 200 members of the Kansas City Chiefs organization, (7) won "best-in-class" in Nonprofit Connect Philly awards for the Worthy Pop-Up bar, (8) were a proud recipient of the Rep. Emanuel Cleaver urban justice award, (9) completed the two-year Health Forward Foundation learning and action network program, (10) organized 785 volunteers who gave 8,753 hours of their time, (11) served 26,655 meals, (12) sheltered or boarded 14 pets.