Welcome to our website. If you are a victim of violence, we hope this will be a place that will help you begin a journey toward healing and renewed hope. Safe Places offers supportive services for you, as well as for your family members and friends who might also need support. Please contact us for more information about our services:
- Services for Children Exposed to Violence
- Trauma Counseling for Individuals & Families
- Support Groups for Victims & Families/Friends
- Therapeutic Victim Impact Sessions for Children and Youth
- Community Education on Violence Prevention
- Specialized Training for Faith Communities
- Referral Services and Information
- Online Information and Resources
Safe Places offers help that is holistic in nature. When a person's life is rearranged by violence, the healing process must include not only physical healing, but also emotional and spiritual healing. Our professional staff know the importance of this and are trained to provide support for the body, the mind and the spirit.
We work with individuals, couples and families . . . adults, adolescents, and children. Our staff has years of experience helping victims of domestic and sexual violence, child abuse and maltreatment, adult survivors of childhood abuse, victims of homicide, as well as victims who are experiencing grief and loss from other forms of violence. Our professional staff has specialized expertise spiritual care and counseling, criminal justice advocacy, support group facilitation and the mental health issues that sometimes affect victims of violence.
Violence Prevention Education and Transforming Anger Groups
Each week more than 350 children and young people are involved in group experiences that promote safe and healthy relationships or in groups that help young people understand and transform anger. Groups are held in locations throughout the community.
Community Education and Training
We also provide education to individuals and groups who desire to effectively assist victims of violence. This training is useful for counselors and therapists, educators, health care and mental health providers.
Specialized Services for Faith Communities
Our sexual and domestic violence prevention education features a specialized curriculum written for use with clergy and faith communities. In addition, we serve as trainers and consultants with clergy and faith communities as they provide support to victims of violence in their midst. Our training curriculum is specifically designed to address the unique challenges of clergy and members of faith communities who work with victims of violence.
Please browse this site to learn more about our services, our vision and our mission. For complete biographical information on our professional service providers, go to Our Staff.
Support for Safe Places
The advent of The Center for Healing and Hope was made possible through the Alliance of Baptists Bridges of Hope Mission Offering. The Alliance, which is based in Washington, D.C., has supported our work since 2002. Now called Safe Places, we have support from a variety of sources including individual contributors, corporate donors, and various grants.
Our services are provided to victims of violence at no charge, though many of them contribute to our work to the extent that they are able.
We welcome your financial contribution to help fund the services we offer to victims of violence.
Safe Places: The Center for Healing and Hope is incorporated in the state of Arkansas as a non-profit victim assistance organization and has 501(c)3 status from the Internal Revenue Service. Safe Places is a program of The Center for Healing and Hope, Inc.
All donations are tax deductible. Our standard of service is modeled after the Standards for Victim Assistance Programs and Providers published by the National Victim Assistance Standards Consortium. The Consortium, a multi-disciplinary and geographically diverse group of victim service experts convened to examine standards and credentialing for victim assistance providers, was established by the U.S. Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime.
