My Sister's Home offered at LifeWire
My Sister's Home offered at LifeWire
Provides safe, confidential, interim housing apartments for victims of domestic violence, with or without children. Typical length of stay is 4-12 weeks. Services for survivors of domestic violence and their children are provided in a nine-unit apartment. Survivors may be of ANY GENDER or non-binary. Assists with legal advocacy as well as coordination with medical, mental health or chemical dependency services. Additional safety planning around special client needs is available. Safety assessment is a necessary first step. Also may provide short-term, confidential emergency shelter motels for victims of domestic violence and their children. Stay is up to 7 days. Clients may be able to transfer from the hotels to the shelter at the end of the 7 days. Motel voucher availability fluctuates; call to inquire.
Voice
Website
Hours
24 hours daily.
Application process
Call the 24-hour helpline.
Eligibility
Victims of domestic violence, with or without children. Accepts survivors that identify any abuse within the home, even if not from an intimate partner. Trans* clients are addressed with the pronouns requested and are treated as they identify. Teens are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Accepts households with various compositions, such as multi-generational families and adult couples and couples with children. Accepts those with criminal history. Service animals accepted.
Fee
None.
Languages
Interpreter services
Hebrew
Spanish
Agency info
LifeWire
Provides confidential emergency shelter, transitional housing, advocacy, support groups, short-term counseling and legal services for male, female and non-binary domestic violence survivors.. Provides specialized support services for men, adolescents, children and Spanish-speaking services. .