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Hey, Respect Your Elders!

Center for Hope & Safety received a hotline call from a woman who’d been married for 50 years and abused throughout her entire marriage. She was still married. She had no intention of leaving her husband; she just needed someone to talk to. A rabbi reported to us that...

Transforming a life – Joy’s Story

Center for Hope & Safety’ Transitional Housing provides women with longer-term housing, giving them the necessary time to get on back on their own feet. Joy fled a life of constant abuse and was able to find help from Center for Hope & Safety and Transitional...

One Journey, Many Pathways

Not far from the children’s zoo and train ride in Van Saun County Park in Paramus, NJ is a brick pathway  winding its way amid a garden of flowers and shrubs. It is a quiet enclave, intentionally so. Take a stroll along the Pathway, look closely, and you’ll...

Laura’s Story of Hope; it sometime takes more than one try.

Laura had a newborn son in her arms. She fled for safety from an abusive relationship with the baby’s father.  She did not know what it was like to live without violence and had no place but the shelter to turn. Lara found being a single parent too difficult to...