Legal Advocacy

The Legal Advocacy Program provides services to women staying at the shelter and community women not staying overnight at the shelter, including:

On-call advocacy follow-up to all arrests
Transportation (if needed) and support advocacy for all court hearings
Assistance in gathering and documenting evidence in criminal cases (photos of injuries)
A communication network linking women with probation officers, prosecuting attorneys and abuser's counselors.

Through the Legal Advocacy Program, Safe Haven Shelter has worked to move beyond the concept of only providing emergency safe housing and advocacy, to an approach that challenges each of the community's institutions to both protect victims of battering and to change the cultural facilitators of battering.

Please Call the Legal Advocacy Program at (218) 623-1000.