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Community Resources
Mutual support groups whose members are individuals who have been involved in physical or emotional abuse by a spouse or other partner. The groups meet in-person, by telephone or via the Internet; provide emotional support, information and resources for those who participate; and may be structured for victims of domestic violence, those responsible for battering them, or for adults or adolescents who as children were traumatized by witnessing violence in their homes.
This agency provides homemakers, personal care homemakers, home health aides, companions and respite services. It has a domestic violence program that offers support services, including individual counseling and support groups, to meet the needs of individuals caught in the cycle of domestic violence. It also provides home based case management, a teen parenting program, and…
This is a program for victims of domestic violence. Services include a 24-hour crisis hotline, crisis intervention counseling, and temporary transitional housing for the short term. It also provides a court advocacy program that includes assistance with obtaining a restraining order, legal consultation and representation (on a sliding fee scale), and rapid response teams. It…
HAWC provides free comprehensive and confidential domestic violence programs and services in North Shore communities from Saugus to Rockport. Some of the services offered include a 24-hour hotline, individual advocacy, support groups, legal advocacy, hospital advocacy, children’s services, parent-child trauma recovery program, and community education. It has a shelter that is a communal living situation.