Program areas at Sanctuary for Families
Legal representation, advocacy, and advice/consultation to 5,469 clients in areas including family law, immigration law, housing and public benefits, matrimonial law, and orders of protection. This included direct representation and advocacy for over 3,000 clients in 6,141 legal cases.
Transitional domestic violence shelter housed 121 adults and 157 children, with 66 clients discharged and served through post-shelter services such as counseling, case management, financial assistance, and legal referrals. Sanctuary's 4 emergency domestic violence shelters housed 65 adults and 95 children.
Clinical services reached 2,847 adults and children last year, including individual, family, and group counseling; safety planning/danger assessments, and referrals for medical, mental health, and other urgent needs.
The economic empowerment program (eep) is an intensive service-sector career training program offered in-house at our main office and one additional location. Its 4-month, full-day training program includes career readiness; office technology skills including ms word, excel and powerpoint; and english and math literacy. Eep served 507 clients including 157 in 4 months career training program, and 60 in abbreviated spanish language training program. The remaining clients engaged in internships, supplemental occupational training, job placement assistance, esol classes, and/or other ancillary programs.