Services

Every Woman's House prides itself on providing comprehensive and compassionate services that are tailored to the individual needs of the client and the community. Our services include:

Counseling

Traumatic experiences such as family violence or abuse and sexual assault or abuse can create distressing reactions that are at times overwhelming and could linger for months or years after. Every Woman's House specializes in helping traumatized survivors, including children, to recover from the effects of these experiences. Every Woman’s House is certified to provide professional mental health counseling by licensed counselors and social workers to assist survivors and their children in recovery from many types of abuse.

If you are experiencing distressing symptoms, please call for an appointment. Counseling is available for residents of the shelter and members of the community and is offered at both the Wooster and Millersburg offices. Most major insurances and Medicaid are accepted and a sliding fee scale is available for those who qualify. We will not turn anyone away due to their inability to pay for all or part of services rendered.

Couples and Family Counseling

Sometimes when families experience abuse or violence, there is a desire and there may be an opportunity to preserve the family. Every Woman’s House can offer couples, marital, and family counseling by professional mental health counselors when it is safe and appropriate. If your family has experienced abuse and/or violence, but also has a desire to remain intact, please call for a counseling appointment in the Wooster or Millersburg office

Emergency Shelter

Every Woman’s House is the only provider of domestic violence shelter in Wayne and Holmes Counties and has temporary emergency shelter available for women with and without children. Emergency shelter is also available for women and their children who are experiencing homelessness. The shelter offers comprehensive services including case management, counseling, educational classes, housing assistance, life skills and parenting courses. If you are a victim of domestic violence and are in need of temporary emergency shelter or are experiencing homelessness, please call our hotline number below. The hotline and shelter are available 24 hours per day/7 days a week.

24-Hour Crisis Line

Domestic Violence, Rape, Sexual Assault Crisis Hotline 

330-263-1020 or 800-686-1122

Breaking free from a life threatened by violence often begins with the first courageous step of calling Every Woman's House. We offer a hotline that is answered by trained staff providing an immediate response to domestic violence, rape and sexual assault victims and survivors.

Victim Advocacy Services

Every Woman's House provides advocacy services to victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault. These services are centered around the victim’s needs and are designed to either assist the victim in either safely leaving the abusive relationship, stay safely in the relationship or explore options. Services include:

• assistance with protection orders
•  court accompaniment
•  legal referrals
•  hospital advocacy
•  safety planning
•  civil stand-by’s
•  information about personal rights
• general information and referral 

Generally, victims access services by phoning in or “walking in.” Appointments are preferred but not necessary. Advocacy services are prioritized to those individuals at greatest risk. 

Batterer Intervention - Another Way

Another Way Program is an intervention program for men who have been abusive to their partners or families. Another Way has proven highly successful in changing the abusive behavior and reducing the violence in the participants completing the program.

There is a separate program for women who may have been abusive to their partners. The philosophy of the Another Way Batterers Intervention Program (BIP) is that adults who abuse those they love have learned destructive thinking and behavioral patterns. It is the desire of the Another Way Program to help each participant identify and change those patterns. The primary goal for this program is to teach alternative behavior patterns and raise awareness about the factors that contribute to violence. This is done in group format through presentation of material, discussion, role-playing, cognitive exercises, challenges to maladaptive thoughts, and empathy building. If you think this program would help you or your family, please call for an appointment.

Danger Assessment Program

The Danger Assessment Program is a lethality assessment program for intimate partner violence implemented in February 2008 with the Wooster Police Department. Recently, with the assistance of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, the program has expanded to include the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office and the Orrville Police Department. In this program, law enforcement officers administer a brief survey to victims called the Danger Assessment (DA). Law enforcement then connects the victim to the Every Woman’s House (EWH) hotline for safety planning and assistance. This is an excellent example of the community coming together to increase the safety of victims. If you are concerned about your safety and would like this assessment, please contact the Victim Advocate at Every Woman’s House in Wayne or Holmes Counties (Wayne County: (330) 263-6021; Holmes County: (330) 674-1020).

Community Education

Every Woman’s House provides educational programming to community groups and every school district in Wayne and Holmes County. Programs deal with such issues as domestic violence, teen dating violence, sexual assault, bullying, sexual harassment, and any other topic related to interpersonal violence.

The Housing Initiative at Liberty Center Connections

The mission of The Housing Initiative is to provide supportive services and to teach life skills that assist households in obtaining and maintaining stable housing. The role of The Housing Initiative in Wayne and Holmes Counties is to ensure all agencies and entities that provide a service to those in a housing crisis, work together efficiently and effectively. When providing assistance to households, Liberty Center Connections (LCC) adopts a Housing First approach. We believe that homelessness is first and foremost a housing problem and should be treated as such. The Housing First Approach consists of crisis intervention, emergency services, and a screening and needs assessment. It is believed that those vulnerable or at-risk families should be returned to or stabilized in permanent housing as quickly as possible and that they should be connected to the necessary resources to sustain their housing. Issues that may have caused the household’s homelessness can then be addressed once they are in stable housing.  LLC’s Housing Initiative staff works with households to help them progress from crisis onto self-sufficiency by providing intensive case management services, direct financial assistance, help accessing necessary benefits or services, guidance in obtaining affordable housing or housing subsidies, assistance seeking  employment, and any other services that a specific household may need to stabilize and sustain their housing.