Safe Embrace

Safe Embraces Safe House & Survivor Support program provides a dual focus shelter for victims of domestic abuse, sexual violence, and human trafficking in Washoe County, Nevada. These services are provided at no cost to the survivors and are extended to the survivors children and pets. Our safe house is the most inclusive shelter of its kind in the Reno/Sparks area accomodating male, LGBTQIA2+, and survivors with disabilities. The safe house is pet friendly. Annually, the safe house provided more than 6,600 bed nights for primary survivors, their children, and pets. In addition, Safe Embrace provided more than 500 individual and group counseling sessions, 400 legal advocacies, 700 case management sessions,140 Kids Club activities, and 800 bystander intervention and prevention education programs to the northern Nevada community.

Safe Embraces 24-hour Crisis Response Team responded to more than 3,000 requests from primary survivors of domestic and sexual violence through our hotline, electronic communication, and by assisting walk-in survivors. This program offers approximately 200 motel nights to primary and secondary survivors and emergency transportation assistance funds annually.

Safe Embraces Rapid Rehousing program offers subsidized housing to survivors of domestic and sexual violence who are homeless or on the brink of homelessness. By addressing homelessness first, we can work through other issues related to domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexaul assault in a healthy and sustainable way.

Safe Embraces Transitional Housing program operates under a scattered site model. The program helps reduce the housing barriers that many low-income/homeless clients face. 98% of clients maintained permanent housing after exiting the program.