DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

(800) 799-SAFE (7233)
Immediate help in English or Spanish twenty-four hours a day. A nationwide database that links individuals and services. There is access to translators in 139 languages. The best bet if you need immediate help is to dial 911, hut if it is not an emergency, phone this number.

The National Coalition against Domestic Violence
P.0. Box 18749
Denver, CO 802 18-0749
(303) 839-1852 M-F 8:00 A.M. to 5 P.M.

Provides the telephone number of the shelter nearest you and will send you an information packet with fact sheets on domestic violence.

(800) 842-4546 Call twenty-four hours a day.
The Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and the National Coalition against Domestic Violence will provide free reconstructive surgery to domestic-violence victims.

Keith Galbraith, director
Barbara Nixon, assistant director
P.O. Box 98318
Tacoma, WA 98498-0318

(253) 475-9010

A Christian-oriented program. They shelter Christian and non-Christian women.

(800) 537-2238

Supplies comprehensive information and resources, as well as pol­icy development and technical assistance to those providing serv­ices to battered women, their children, and other victims of domestic violence.

936 N. 34th St.
Suite 200 Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 634-1903

Visit their Web site http://www.cpsdv.org

Marie Fortune, director. An interfaith organization that educates and trains clergy and lay leaders to deal with domestic-violence problems.

A Project of the Spokane Council of Ecumenical Ministries
245 E. 13th Avenue
Spokane, WA 99202
(509) 535-1813

Connection is a newsletter that seeks to communicate insights and to connect groups concerned about clergy families facing divorce, abuse, misconduct, and everyday trials of family living.

(800) 421-6770

Provides a copy of the Violence against Women Act, signed into law by President Clinton on September 13, 1994. The Violence against Women Act of 1998 is pending in Congress, and if passed it will reauthorize the act of 1994, and, it is hoped, increase benefits.

Listed in the white business pages of telephone directories under such titles as YWCA, Hospitals, Women's Services, Battered Women, Crisis Intervention, Women Helping Women. They can provide information about shelters, support groups, legal aid, court advocacy, job training, housing, day care, and therapy groups for victims and abusers.

CHILD ABUSE

(800) 422-4453
Call twenty-four hours a day.

For victims, offenders, and parents. The hotline offers crisis inter­vention as well as information regarding child abuse, adult sur­vivors of child abuse, parenting, and other related issues. Refers you to similar agencies across North America.

(909) 621-6184

For parents who feel like hitting their children.

Operation Lookout, National Center for Missing Youth

(800) 782-SEEK
(800) 782-7335

LEGAL DEFENSE

LAW

3524 5. Utah Street Arlington, VA 22206
(703) 820-8393

Women (and men) in an abusive relationship in need of legal representation. Assistance is provided regardless of race, nationality, gender, social status, or education level.

125 S. Ninth Street
Suite 302
Philadelphia, PA 19107
(215) 351-0010

Gives legal information to women charged with crimes due to self-defense while assaulted.

HELP FOR BATTERERS

Paul Hegstrom
P.O. Box 31227
Aurora, CO 80041
(303) 340-0598

Headquarters for a network of more than 102 counseling centers, four of which are in London. The educational programs, which apply a Christian perspective, are offered for abusers and victims of abuse (children and women). The director, Paul Hegstrom, is a for­mer batterer, Cost is determined on a sliding scale. Life Skills International may have a therapy group program near your area.

(800) 903-0111

The Domestic Abuse Intervention Project department provides materials to help those wishing to develop batterers' programs.