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Shelters and Services
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Comprehensive List of Domestic Violence Shelters, Safe Housing, and Health Care Resources
Listed below are some of the resources available to victims of domestic violence in the Boston area
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- Casa Myrna Vazquez (Boston): A community-based multicultural organization dedicated to the eradication of domestic violence. Casa Myrna Vazquez offers direct services to women & children, including emergency and transitional shelters, welfare, legal, mental health, and child advocacy.
- 24-hour Bilingual (English
& Spanish) hotline: 1-800-992-2600.
Business Line: (617) 521-0100.
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The Elizabeth Stone House (Jamaica Plain): Run by women, for women, The Elizabeth Stone House
provides residential and community-based services for women and their
children. MBTA accessible.
- 24-hour hotline (English
& Spanish): (617) 522-3417
Office Line: (617) 522-3659
Transitional Housing Program, Groups, Parent/Child Center: (617) 427-9801.
- 24-hour hotline (English
& Spanish): (617) 522-3417
- Respond, Inc. (Somerville):
A community-based nonprofit organization providing direct services to
battered women and their children. Services include emergency shelter,
counseling programs, support groups, legal, welfare, and housing advocacy.
Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese and French-speaking staff members
available.
- 24-hour hotline: (617)
623-5900
- 24-hour hotline: (617)
623-5900
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Transition House (Cambridge):
Offers emergency food and shelter, counseling, economic literacy programs,
Haitian services, and outreach programs. MBTA accessible.
- Hotline: (617) 661-7203
Teen hotline: (877) 644-3847
- Hotline: (617) 661-7203
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Renewal House (Boston):
Provides temporary and emergency shelter for battered women and their
children, counseling, support groups, welfare, court, housing and child
advocacy. MBTA accessible.
- 24-hour hotline: (617)
566-6881
Business Line: (617) 277-4194
- 24-hour hotline: (617)
566-6881
- Horizon House (Mattapan):
Provides Housing Authority referrals, daycare for children, transitional
living/work programs and advocates for emotional and practical support.
- (617) 296-2492
- (617) 296-2492
- Crittenton Hastings House
(Brighton): Offers transitional living programs, housing advocacy
and GED educational programs.
- (617) 782-7600
- (617) 782-7600
- Asian Task Force Against
Domestic Violence (Boston):
The mission of the Asian Task Force
Against Domestic Violence is to eliminate family violence and to strengthen
Asian families & communities. In 1994, the Task Force opened the first
battered women's shelter in New England specifically for Asian women.
Multilingual support groups available.
- Multilingual Task Force
hotline: (617) 338-2355
Business Line: (617) 338-2350
- Multilingual Task Force
hotline: (617) 338-2355
- Gay Men's Domestic Violence
Project (Cambridge): Offers shelter, guidance, and resources to
allow gay, bisexual, and transgender men in crisis to remove themselves
from violent situations and relationships.
- GMDVP Crisis Line: 1-800-832-1901
Business Line: (617) 354-6056
- GMDVP Crisis Line: 1-800-832-1901
- The Violence Recovery
Program at Fenway Community Health Center (Boston): For nearly 30
years, the Fenway Community Health Center has provided high quality
medical & mental health care to Boston's lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender community. The Violence Recovery Program (VRP) provides
counseling, support groups, advocacy, and referral services to Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender victims of domestic violence.
- Violence Recovery Program:
(617) 927-6250, or toll-free 1-800-834-3242
- Violence Recovery Program:
(617) 927-6250, or toll-free 1-800-834-3242
- Child Witness to Violence
Project at Boston Medical Center:
Offers counseling and advocacy to young children who witness domestic
and community violence. CWVP has a multi-lingual staff of social workers,
psychologists, early childhood specialists and a consulting child psychiatrist.
- (617) 414-4244
- (617) 414-4244
- Jane Doe Inc.:
Jane Doe Inc.,
The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence brings
together organizations and people committed to ending domestic violence and
sexual assault.
- Phone:
617 248 0922
Fax: 617 248 0902
TTY/TTD: 617 263 2200
- Phone:
617 248 0922
- The Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery (Boston):
Hospital (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) based program offering services to all. Programs include: Safe Transitions: Domestic Violence Intervention Program, Rape Crisis Intervention Program, Community Violence Intervention, Advocacy and Support Project.
- Business Line: (617)667-8141, Emergency Department: (617)754-2400.
- DOVE, Inc - DOmestic Violence Ended:
24 Hour Toll Free Crisis Hotline 1-888-314-DOVE (3683) Shelter, Services, Advocacy, Outreach, Education
- Phone: 1-888-314-DOVE (3683)
- Phone: 1-888-314-DOVE (3683)
- Additional Phone numbers:
- Domestic Violence SafeLink Statewide 24-hour hotline: 1-877-785-2020
- City of Boston Emergency Shelter Commission: (617) 635-4507
- Greater Boston Legal Services: (617) 371-1234
- Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-792-5200
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center (BARCC): (617) 492-RAPE (7273)
- Elder Abuse Hotline: 1-800-922-2275
- National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).
- Suffolk County District Attorney's Office Domestic Violence Unit: (617) 619-4000
- Network for Battered Lesbians: (617) 695-0877
- Emerge (Batterer's Treatment Program): (617) 547-9879
- Boston Medical Center (Emergency): (617) 534-4075
- Brigham & Women's Hospital: (617) 732-5636
- Faulkner Hospital: (617) 522-5800
- Carney Hospital: (617) 296-4000
- Massachusetts General Hospital: (617) 726-2000
- Children's Hospital: (617) 735-6000
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