With your help, SafeHouse Denver provides emergency shelter, extended stay housing, non-residential advocacy-based counseling, and more to survivors of domestic violence and their children. Our ability to provide these often life-saving services for free is possible because of the generosity of our community. Thank you for considering a donation!
Meet Alexia
A face you may pass on the street. A friend you might see out for brunch. A successful and bubbly woman whose journey is one of resilience. You don't know me, but you know someone like me.
You see me moving into a new apartment with my boyfriend.
What you don’t see is how all my friends and family were now hundreds of miles away. I was completely alone.
You see him helping to organize my closet.
What you don’t see is that just hours before, he threw all my clothes out into the hallway while we were arguing.
You see my boyfriend giving me a new pair of shoes.
What you don’t see is that this is an apology gift for dragging me across the floor the night before.
You see us out to brunch and getting pedicures.
What you don’t see is him slamming my head into a microwave that night, leading to 6 stitches in my face.
You see me painting the furniture in my bedroom.
What you don’t see is me sleeping on my couch for months, because I couldn’t bear the thought of being in the bed I shared with my abuser.
TODAY…
You see me with a strong support system and amazing friends.
What you don’t see is me running to my neighbor for help because I had nowhere else to go.
You see me proudly running my real estate business.
What you don’t see is me spending months in services at SafeHouse Denver. You don’t see me fighting to regain my confidence.
You see me as a successful and independent woman.
What you don’t see is the time it took to rebuild the person I am.
You don’t know me, but you know someone like me.
You may not see what survivors go through behind closed doors. But you can do something to support them. Donate today to ensure survivors like Alexia always have a path back to their confident selves.
During her healing journey, Alexia found SafeHouse Denver to be a beacon of support. After escaping an abusive relationship, she tried to find mental health services, but nobody seemed to understand exactly what she had been through.
She found that understanding and care at SafeHouse Denver. Alexia refers to her friends, neighbors, and the SafeHouse staff as angels – guiding lights in her path to recovery.
You can be an angel – a guiding light – for survivors just like Alexia. This holiday season, with costs rising, housing challenges and a growing city population... SafeHouse Denver is needed more than ever.
Please donate today so that the survivors in our lives, hidden or known, can access life-saving services.
Alexia knows what it is to be lost.
Alexia now knows she is meant to be here.
Alexia is a strong, accomplished woman who wants to share her story.
Alexia is also a survivor who wants others to know they’re not alone.
THANK YOU in advance for donating this holiday season. Your support will help survivors access the resources they need to build their own safe, healthy and successful futures.
On behalf of SafeHouse Denver’s Board of Directors and staff, we wish you a happy holiday season!
SafeHouse Denver's mission is to assist adults, children and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence.
SafeHouse Denver strives to:
• intervene in domestic violence with services that empower adults, children and youth to live free from abuse.
• prevent domestic violence through education efforts that foster and support a broad movement for violence-free communities.
• facilitate an interactive, collaborative community response to relationship violence that identifies survivors earlier, makes survivor services more accessible and builds community awareness and accountability.
In 1977, five courageous women established an Emergency Shelter for women and children fleeing from domestic violence, calling it SafeHouse for Battered Women. In the early '90s, we changed our name to SafeHouse Denver and opened a non-residential Counseling & Advocacy Center to address the needs of those pursuing intervention services, but not necessarily emergency shelter.
In the summer of 2018, our long-term vision of opening an Extended Stay Program (ESP) was realized. The ESP provides safe, independent apartments for Shelter residents who are out of acute crisis but in need of short-term housing.
Since our founding, SafeHouse Denver has expanded education and outreach efforts, especially to bilingual individuals, low to middle-income individuals, older adults, teens, the LGBTQ+ community and other populations at high risk for domestic violence. Today, SafeHouse Denver is the only agency in the city and county of Denver providing a full continuum of trauma-informed care for survivors of domestic violence and their children.
For the past 47 years, and as we look toward the future, SafeHouse Denver has remained committed to providing high-quality, compassionate programs and services to survivors of domestic violence and the broader community that is ultimately impacted by this issue. We thank you for standing alongside us in this important effort.
Organization name
SafeHouse Denver, Inc
1977
Tax id (EIN)
84-0745911
Category
Human Services
Organization Size
Large Organization
Colorado State Tax Credits
Colorado Homeless Credit
Address
1649 N. Downing StreetDenver County, CO, US
Phone
303-318-9959
Other
303-318-9989
Fax
303-318-9979
Other
303-302-6126