Women's Shelter and Support Center

Mission

It is our mission to provide outreach, advocacy, and housing to abused women, individuals and families. We have been serving southeastern Minnesota since 1976 and are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help individuals identify ways to stay safe, whether they decide to leave, or stay. 

Programs

• 24-hour crisis line
• Safe emergency shelter and longer-term transitional and permanent housing
• Legal advocacy
• Support groups for adults and children
• Children's programming
• Multi-culture staff and services
• Specialized services to immigrant and refugee battered women and their children
• Community outreach
• Education and prevention

Our advocates are trained and skilled in helping individuals in need, and passionate about helping save lives, restore hope, and change futures.