House Of Ruth Maryland Inc

Client services and 24-hr hotline: provides crisis response, lethality assessment and initial access to all house of ruth programs (in english and spanish as available) for victims and information and referral for others through our 24-hr contact center. Program provides victim outreach, comprehensive needs assessment, safety planning, and traditional case management coordination of agency and community resources such as links for victims to safe housing, employment opportunities, medical treatment, and immigrant services etc. The 24-hr hotline and client services staff handled 3,287 victim and information and referral calls and provided 115 victims with service coordination.

Domestic violence legal clinic: provides initial consultation including lethality assessment and safety planning, legal information, counseling and referral, representation at protective order hearings, representation at divorce and custody hearings and criminal court accompaniment to low-income victims of domestic violence. The clinic serves victims across maryland through its eight office locations. In fy 2024, 2,714 cases were handled by staff providing legal services to victims.

Counseling, children & youth service, training, outreach & education, and abuser intervention programs.