About Our Services

You have come to trust The Center for Healing and Hope.

Now you will know us by a name you can still trust - Safe Places.

Safe Places is more than a name - it is a promise that our staff is spending time with children and young people, helping create safe places in their lives, places without violence and abuse . . .

places at home, in schools, and in neighborhoods and communities.

We also work with the adults who help children grow and thrive, and who help keep them safe and protected.

We fulfill our mission in many ways. Some of those ways include:

Offering comprehensive and compassionate services that nurture children, adolescents and families when violence has occurred.

Working with children in their social context, so that violence prevention initiatives have effect in families, schools, community youth programs and neighborhoods.

Encouraging individuals to create independent lives, free of violence, for themselves and their families.

Helping children and youth develop the resilience and sense of self that leads to safe and healthy boundaries and respectful relationships.

When you contact Safe Places, you will find a compassionate, caring, and highly qualified staff experienced in working with children and their families who face the grief and loss of violent victimization and abuse.

These are the services we provide:

24-hour crisis intervention and various supportive services for victims of sexual violence through our Sexual Violence Support Center.

Advocacy, Intervention, Education and Trauma-Focused Therapy with Child and Youth Victims of Violence

Specialized Trauma Counseling for Families ExperiencingViolence and/or Abuse

Therapeutic Intervention through Specialized and Age-Appropriate Victim Impact Statements for Child and Adolescent Victims of Violence

Immediate Crisis Intervention and Long-Term Child and Family Advocacy

Violence Prevention Education: Safety, Risk Reduction & Delinquency Prevention

Violence Prevention and Intervention Training for Community Professionals

Online Intervention and Support

Transforming Anger Groups

Help for Children and Adolescents who Feel Angry

Chances & Changes Groups

For Adolescents Who Need a Second Chance

Safe Talk & Play

Intervention for Young

Children Exposed to

Violence or Abuse

Reflect Respect Groups

Preventing sexual violence by addressing empathy,

safe bystander responsibility, positive community

attachments, and community partnerships to end

sexual and dating violence, bullying and

sexual harassment