Emergency Shelter

The Safe Avenues shelter program provides emergency residential shelter services to individuals and their children who are in immediate danger of violence. The shelter has 6 rooms and a total of 16 beds.  When our shelter is operating at maximum occupancy, victims are assisted in locating available shelter facilities through Minnesota’s Day One network.

Our Shelter Program:

• Assists victim survivors in need of safe emergency shelter due to domestic or sexual violence and sexual exploitation or trafficking.
• Provides all basic needs for residents while they stay in the shelter 
• Helps residents work on securing housing, employment and other self-defined needs
• Assists victim survivors with developing a safety plan 
• Offers advocacy and accompaniment to community services
• Provides referrals to other agencies
• Provides in-house support group
• Provides daily one-on-one advocacy meetings