HAVEN

Legal advocacy: legal advocates support survivors of domestic violence, sex trafficking, sexual assault, and stalking as they work through the court system. The legal advocate explains general court procedures and paperwork and offers support to individuals navigating the legal process. This often includes assisting survivors when filing temporary or permanent orders of protection.

Counseling and support groups: haven counselors provide individual therapy sessions. One-on-one sessions address issues regarding self-esteem, understanding needs, recognizing feelings, learning effective ways to communicate with others, healing from abuse and personal growth. Individual therapy is a participant driven process where participants set personal goals they would like to achieve during individual sessions.

Community education team: the community education team is comprised of trained volunteers who provide domestic violence education to local businesses, service organizations, and students. They present to hundreds of community members each year on subjects such as the red flags of abusive relationships to the cycle of abuse.

Teen education: haven partners with key nonprofits in the greater gallatin valley to provide teen dating violence prevention programming to both at-risk youth and all high schoolers. Programs under this umbrella include the haven/bridgercare peer education team, as well as foundational healthy relationship education for youth working with hrdc and youth dynamics, inc.

Dvrt: the domestic violence response team (dvrt) is an interdisciplinary team comprised of law enforcement, prosecution, community organizations, and other partners from the justice system that work together to improve support and responses for survivors. Haven facilitates the dvrt.

Transitional housing

End the silence: haven's survivor speakers' bureau, end the silence, is designed to empower survivors by speaking out against domestic abuse. Participants complete a seven-week training on presentation skills, leadership skills and the dynamics of domestic violence. The group gives between 1220 presentations to community members annually in an effort to reduce the stigma of experiencing domestic violence and to build the community's understanding.

Pond row pets: this is havens sheltering pets program. To increase access for survivors, haven now welcomes the pets at our shelter. Haven has partnered with local animal trainers and veterinarians to ensure pets staying with us are happy and healthy.