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The Center helps people who abuse to stop their domestic violence, take responsibility for their behavior, create healthy relationships, and strengthen their community. Domestic violence affects women and children, men and boys. It is estimated that one woman is battered every nine seconds; 37% of women visiting emergency rooms are there due to domestic battery; in Chicago, one domestic violence related call is made to the 911 call center per district per hour.

The Vision, Mission, and Values of There is Hope for Me (TIHFM)Vision: To identify and restore survivors of human trafficking and abuse. Mission: As a survivors-to-survivors nonprofit. TIHFM offers H.O.P.E. through Healing, Opportunity, Purpose and Empowerment. We conduct education and awareness outreach and identification of trafficking survivors, provide one-on-one survivor peer mentoring (restoration) and support to those affected by human trafficking and abuse. Values: We provide hope and unconditional love to survivors and their families. Collaboration with law enforcement aids in successful prosecutions while maintaining partnerships of integrity, which guards the valued trust of our survivors. We provide national trainings on trauma-informed, survivor centered care.

Center for Hope & Safety (formerly Shelter Our Sisters) is dedicated to assisting Bergen County, NJ victims and survivors of domestic violence, and their children, by turning fear into safety, helplessness into strength, and isolation into hope. The agency provides emergency and transitional housing, emotional support, and a diversified continuum of services focused on safety, empowerment, and self-sufficiency. Through community partnerships, Center for Hope and Safety raises awareness, provides services, and educates community members about domestic violence.

The Crisis Center is a non-profit community organization that provides emergency shelter and other essential services to victims of domestic violence, and addresses the societal issues that contribute to domestic violence. The Crisis Center serves the Greater Chicago Southland, the main focus areas being the ten townships in its original service area: Bloom, Bremen, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Stickney, Thornton, and Worth. This encompasses the Circuit Court of Cook County Fifth and Sixth Municipal Districts in Bridgeview and Markham. However, clients come from all over the state of Illinois, from other states, and occasionally from other countries.

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN) is a human rights organization committed to ending violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy, education and community organizing. Our vision is a just and equitable world for all individuals  and their their families, this includes their pets too!

The mission of the Center for Sexual Assault Survivors is to provide support, treatment and advocacy to persons affected by sexual violence and to lead the community toward a reduction of sexual violence through education and awareness.