Legal advocacy, children's trauma therapy, support group, domestic violence liaisons in child protective services, housing navigation and safety planning.In 2021, women aware's services remained operational throughout despite the covid 19 pandemic and stay at home orders. Domestic violence emergency shelter was expanded to include hotel placement, we maintained trauma focused creative arts therapy, legal advocacy and opened the doors of the family justice center. Over 7,278 calls were received and answered via our 24/7 helpline. Of those, over 1900 were crisis call from people expressing safety concerns. Our hotline advocates spoke with callers in over 10 different languages including: bengali, spanish, arabic, portuguese, kinyarwanda, urdu, gujarati, mandarin, french, and american sign language. We experienced an increase of 49% in our residential services and 33% in non-residential services. Our emergency shelter was able to offer over 11,440 nights of safe placement and help 250 individuals. Our advocates provided counseling and legal advocacy to 2,195 individuals experiencing domestic violence. More than $300,000 were given to families in need of rental assistance and relocation support. Ppe and covid polices were established to keep staff and clients safe.

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