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YWCA Support Shelter offered at YWCA Pierce County

Provides emergency shelter for up to 90 days for single and/or parenting domestic violence survivors (open to all gender identities or expressions), and their children, who have fled an immediately dangerous situation. Other services for residents of the shelter include: - case management, - education, - counseling, - therapeutic children's services, - respite care, - support groups, and - 24-hour advocacy.

Location

405 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402

Hours

Crisis line: 24 hours daily. Shelter office staffed: 6am-6pm, daily.

Application process

Call for screening.  Shelter entry is based on a scored assessment, with priority given to callers in the highest need for immediate safety. As space becomes available, the next highest priority person is contacted from the priority list for a unit that matches their family size.   Can call for information about DV, safety planning, resource information for self and others.

Eligibility

Must be in or trying to flee abuse by an intimate partner defined as current or past dating, child in common, spouse, ongoing sexual partner, pimp or unwanted sexual partner/trafficker.

Fee

None.

Languages

Spanish

Interpreter services

Agency info

YWCA Pierce County

The YWCA Pierce County is a social-service, nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform lives through safety, healing and empowerment. Provides emergency shelter, housing, support groups, counseling, and legal services for victims of domestic violence. Therapeutic children's programming for our client families is also provided. Offers outreach/education on domestic violence and teen and dating violence and healthy relationships and violence prevention curriculum to youth and young adults.