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La Casa de Las Madres
LA CASA DE LAS MADRES (The House of the Mothers) provides refuge and a strong voice against domestic violence in our community offering shelter, advocacy and support service to victims of domestic violence. La Casa services include a 24-hour crisis line, domestic violence response team, emergency shelter, drop-in center, teen program, safe housing project, education and more. La Casa also is building programs to support domestic violence victims’ particular needs in the family court system, a permanent supportive housing, and productive interactions with the police department. They are located at 1663 Mission Street, Suite 225, San Francisco, CA 94103. Telephone lines are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 day a year.
Adults: 1-877-503-1850
Teens: 1-877-923-0700
What is Domestic Violence?
Domestic Violence is about power and control. Domestic violence is an escalating pattern of abuse where one partner in an intimate relationship controls the other through force, intimidation, or the threat of violence. Domestic violence is more than physical assaults. Abusers may use a combination of tactics to gain or maintain control in a relationship. Domestic violence may include sexual, spiritual, verbal, psychological or physical abuse. Abusers also use privilege, jealousy, finances, children, or systems to exert power over their vicitims. Finally, abusers often deny the reality or severity of their abusive behaviors.
Batterers often blame their abusive behavior on drugs or alcohol, stress, childhood abuse, or their partner. As a result, the victim may have feelings of isolation, fear, shame, and hopelessness although they are not responsible for someone else’s violence.
Who does domestic violence affect?
Domestic Violence affects all of us—children, teens, adults, elders. It occurs between people of all races, all nationalities, all classes, and all educational levels. It takes place in all types of intimate relationships—heterosexual, same-sex, marriage, dating, and former relationships. It can happen to anyone. If you are a victim of abuse, you are not alone.
SFTP has supported this worthy organization for many years.
We’ve learned how they provide assistance to battered women and their children and how La Casa not only offers a safe house for them, but therapy, guidance and training to lift these women and children up and out of their abusive environments; to move them forward into jobs and self sufficiency. We applaud the efforts and achievements at our annual holiday party in December with guest speaker from La Casa, Katherine Berg representing her organization. Every year SFTP donates monetarily and with supplies for the shelter itself. With thanks to our benevolent members and SFTP, let's continue to celebrate our friendship and our support of La Casa de Las Madres!
www.lacasadelasmadres.org
6/20/10