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domestic violence services
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The YWCA Evanston/North Shore provides the only comprehensive residential domestic violence program in the northeastern Chicago metropolitan area. In efforts to address domestic violence on all levels, the program is comprised of seven primary elements: crisis intervention, emergency shelter, transitional housing, community-based services, legal advocacy, violence prevention, and community outreach and education. (Click here for a downloadable pdf of our Domestic Violence Services brochure. Tenemos servicios en Español.)
Last year, the 32-bed residential facility served 208 women and children and provided 8,384 nights of care; the legal advocacy program assisted 431 women in obtaining emergency, interim and plenary orders of protection, the Children's Program offered individual and group counseling, including art and play therapy through a collaboration with the Music Institute of Chicago, and, more than 7,200 elementary school children participated in the 10-week curriculum-based Violence Prevention Program.
Having not only touched but changed thousands of lives each year, the Domestic Violence Services Program is committed to strengthening and expanding our programs and thereby enabling the greatest impact and opportunity in the lives of those we serve.
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