women's shelter
Domestic violence sanctuary
A women's shelter is a facility providing temporary housing and support services to women escaping domestic violence, abuse, or homelessness.
Shelters typically offer safe, confidential locations along with counseling, legal assistance, and help finding permanent housing: She stayed at a women's shelter while the restraining order was processed.
Also called a battered women's shelter or domestic violence shelter.
- refugePlace of safety
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
- safetyFreedom from harm
- protectionGuarding against harm
- safe houseSecret secure refuge
trauma survivor · safe space · counseling · support group · social workers · domestic violence · crisis intervention · legal aid · empowerment · fresh start · new beginnings · trust · transitional housing · escape · childcare facilities · advocacy · community outreach · hope
- charitiesRed Cross, food bank, food banks, homeless shelters, Salvation Army
- female-only spacesgirls school, convent school, sorority, ladies room, powder room
- women's groupssorority, sisterhood, nuns, YWCA, suffragettes
- emergency shelterstemporary housing, emergency housing, emergency beds, emergency bed, warming center
- victim servicesvictim support, victim advocate, victim assistance, crisis intervention, safe house
- Women's Servicesob-gyn, gynecology, mammogram, domestic violence shelters, maternity care
women's shelterhomeless camp
Informal settlement of unhoused
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