Shelters and Services

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:

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. 

  • Safelink: 24-hour Domestic Violence Hotline (English & Spanish) (877) 785-2020

  • Casa Myrna's Business Line: (617) 521-0100

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

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

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

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

Horizon House (Mattapan) : Provides Housing Authority referrals, daycare for children, transitional living/work programs and advocates for emotional and practical support.

  • Hotline: (617) 296-2492 

Crittenton Hastings House (Brighton) : Offers transitional living programs, housing advocacy and GED educational programs.

  • Hotline: (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 and 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

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

The Violence Recovery Program at Fenway Community Health Center (Boston) : For nearly 30 years, the Fenway Community Health Center has provided high quality medical and 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

  • Toll-Free: 1(800) 834-3242

Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center : Offers counseling and advocacy to young women who witness domestic and community violence. CWVP has a multi-lingual staff of social workers, psychologists, early childhood specialists and a consulting child psychiatrist.

  • Business Line: (617) 414-4244

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

The Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery (Boston) : Hospital (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) based program offering services to all. Programs include: Safe Transition: 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, shelter, services, advocacy, outreach, education

  • 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