Underground Railroad Inc

Domestic violence programming: the underground railroad (urr) is saginaw county's only domestic violence victim service agency. Services are provided for primary and secondary victims free of charge. These services include 24 hour helpline (3,419 calls); 46 bed emergency shelter (12,441 nights of shelter); individual crisis/supportive counseling (18,275 units); group counseling (957 units); legal advocacy (2,929 court cases accompanied); personal protection order advocacy (465 ppo's); and supervised visitation (98 families served).

Children's services: the underground railroad (urr) offers three programs for children. Girls on the run (gotr) great lakes bay is a local council of gotr international, which is a national program for elementary and middle school girls. Urr's program is offered in the fall and spring at schools in saginaw, bay, arenac, tuscola, huron, midland, gladwin, clare, and iosco counties. Girls learn to make healthy choices and be joyful in a program that incorporates running and walking to build confidence and self-esteem. The 2024 spring program concluded with 122 girls participating in the dow run walk. The 2024 fall program concluded with 175 girls participating in the girls on the run great lakes bay 5k. Urr operates a state licensed childcare for residents of our emergency shelter and transitional housing programs and for non-resident victims who are attending group or individual counseling sessions 9,260 units provided. Individual and group counseling is available for children impacted by domestic violence 115 children served. Community development: the underground railroad's (urr) community development department provides community education and systems change activities to inform and transform our community to better meet the needs of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and human trafficking in saginaw county. The program is also responsible for raising community donations to support prevention programs and services for victims and their families.

Sexual assault intervention and prevention: the underground railroad (urr) provides advocacy, counseling and prevention education programming. Services are provided for primary and secondary victims free of charge. These services include 24 hour helpline (66 calls); individual supportive counseling (1,725 units); and (342 units) of supportive services. Victim's services are provided at various locations on the east side of the city of saginaw. Prevention education programming is offered at k-12 schools and summer camps throughout saginaw county. Programming includes bullying prevention and healthy relationship curriculums (3,139 participants). Resale store: the underground railroad (urr) operates a resale store as a revenue source to support its programs and services and to provide clothing and household items free of charge to clients. A total of $55,360 were redeemed in client vouchers.