Advocacy
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Advocacy Works
Our advocates at Hope’s Door New Beginning Center are the direct ground support for survivors and are experts on systems that provide local resources, solutions, and other opportunities. We assist survivors in setting goals and developing action plans on how to achieve them.
What Is an "Advocate"?
Advocates are professionals trained to support survivors of domestic abuse at HDNBC. Advocates offer survivors information, emotional support, help to find resources, and assistance navigating systems (law enforcement, health care, benefits, etc.) to receive justice, protection, compassion, and healing.
What to Expect
Our advocates work with survivors to find out what they need. We provide free and confidential options that are survivor-centered. Our advocacy solutions range from providing basic needs (such as food, shelter, clothing, and school supplies) to more advanced needs (such as education for budgeting, building resumes, job searches, and job acquisition). We also assist survivors who exit our shelter program with housing solutions, in which rent for an inspected apartment can be provided for one year.
Learn About Abuse
Ask About Advocacy
Call Our 24-Hour Hotline
How Advocates Help
Everyone experiences different events in their lives and requires different kinds of help. Schedule an intake by contacting our Outreach office. Whether you need physical, mental, or legal advice, our advocacy efforts include listening to you, supporting you, and helping you identify the best options that are available for you.
Our advocates are here to guide you on the path to healing.
Safety Planning
Navigating the Child Welfare System
Court Accompaniment
Victims’ Rights Education
Housing and Economic Stability Support
Law Enforcement Advocacy
Outside Referrals
Crime Victims’ Compensation Assistance
Frequently Asked Questions
About Advocacy
What types of advocacy services are offered?
Advocacy solutions include safety planning, victims’ rights education, crime victims’ compensation assistance, assistance navigating the child welfare system, court accompaniment, law enforcement advocacy, housing, and economic stability support, and referral to community resources. All advocacy solutions are free and confidential.
How do I start receiving advocacy services with HDNBC?
To receive advocacy solutions, you can call our Advocacy Team at (972) 422-2911 or click the button to send them a message. Once you speak with an advocate, they will schedule your intake which can be done virtually or in person. Once your intake is completed, an advocate with matching availability will contact you to begin your first session.
What can I expect as I begin advocacy services with HDNBC?
Our advocates are here to help guide you on the path to healing. Everyone experiences different events in their life and requires different kinds of help. Schedule an intake by contacting our Outreach office. Whether you need physical, mental, or legal advice, our advocacy efforts include listening to you, supporting you, and helping you identify the best options that are available for you.
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Our support solutions are free, confidential, available 24/7, and in English or Spanish.
Hope’s Door New Beginning Center empowers survivors of domestic abuse to lead lives free from abuse. Our goal is to offer support and walk with you on your journey towards healing.
Transitional Housing
Survivors receiving shelter may be eligible to participate in our Housing Program. The main goal of the program is to enable survivors to stay in a home and live self-sufficiently once they have completed the program. Our Housing Program is funded through HUD.
Our support options, including transitional housing, are free, confidential, and available 24/7 in English or Spanish.
Housing Advocates
We offer a variety of solutions to help survivors start new lives after leaving an abusive relationship. Solutions available to families and individuals include financial assistance to pay deposits, rent and utilities, childcare, and education expenses. Survivors also have access to supportive solutions, such as case management, individual and group counseling, financial literacy, job support/training, life skills, and a variety of other options.
Access to Other Supportive Solutions
Our Housing Program provides more than just access to affordable housing and supportive solutions to assist survivors in attaining housing stability, safety, self-sufficiency, and independent living. We adhere to a “housing first” and trauma-informed care model which, through the use of motivational interviewing, assures that survivors’ basic needs are met first. When survivors’ basic needs are met, this provides a solid foundation on which they’re able to work towards other goals.
Our shelter advocates are on-site
24 hours a day.
Ultimately, our Housing Team works to eliminate the pressure of a survivor returning to his/her abusive relationship due to a lack of safety, housing, and financial stability. Without our solutions and support, domestic abuse survivors might feel obligated to return to an abusive home in order to avoid being homeless.
We are here 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.