You Make a Difference! 

Everyone deserves a life that is safe, empowered, and free from violence.

At Center for Hope & Safety, we help adults and children who have been impacted by domestic violence build a safer, healthier life by offering support, resources, and professional services. This includes emergency and transitional housing, counseling, legal advocacy, job readiness and financial literacy training, art therapy, and so much more.

Thanks to your help, we’re building a world where no one has to choose between staying in a harmful situation and potential homelessness or loss of hope. Center for Hope & Safety’s services are here for every domestic violence victim and survivor who needs them.

Thanks to your support, in 2024:

• Our free 24/7 hotline answered 5,121 calls.
• Our Safe House program, licensed by the NJ Department of Community Affairs, sheltered 190 adults and children, with an average length of stay of 51 days. Our committed Safe House team, with additional support from our Community Services team, provided full operational and case management support. Ninety-nine percent (99%) of the victims we served reported acquiring more strategies for enhancing their safety.
• 27 adults/families and 24 children received safe shelter in our Transitional Housing Program and 12 families moved on to permanent housing. The typical length of stay was 18 months out of a maximum stay of 24 months.
• Safe and Sustainable Futures, our newest housing program launched in 2023, successfully housed 30 individuals (11 families) into their own homes.
• 109 children in our Safe House and Transitional Housing programs received services and more than 200 Community Program children received referrals/assistance, holiday gifts and/or attended agency activities.

• Center for Hope & Safety’s Domestic Violence Liaisons at NJ’s Division of Child Protection & Permanency (DCPP) offices served 548 families impacted by domestic abuse. Our liaisons provide counseling, advocacy, and safety planning.
• Project CHILD (Confidence, Hope, Independence, Love and Direction) served 33 families for a total of 54 children. Project CHILD provides weekly group and individual creative arts therapy to children ages 4 to 12 who have experienced/witnessed domestic violence, and also case management and therapeutic support to the child’s non-abusive parent. Eighty percent (80%) of children who completed the program showed improved emotional, cognitive and behavioral development. Ninety-six percent (96%) of families completing the program showed improved family functioning.
• Our Community Services team served 227 adults and children through assistance with applications for various governmental assistance, safety planning, risk assessments, career counseling and financial literacy, as well as multicultural services for Latinx and other minority/underserved victims of domestic violence in Bergen County. We also continued to offer The Art of Survival arts-based support group for adult survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
• Our Legal Services team served 355 individuals on 703 legal matters. Advice and counsel were provided to 329 clients and legal representation to 172 clients. Our Legal team expanded upon its services to represent and defend clients for emergent motions when abusers file frivolous claims against them. Staff attorneys additionally have been advocates during client interviews with prosecutors and detectives. Clients can feel intimidated and overwhelmed during such meetings, so our attorneys’ presence eases that burden.
• The total number of victims served is 1,488.

Center for Hope & Safety has helped thousands of survivors of domestic violence; we could not have done all of this without our supporters.

Last updated March 18, 2025