About A Woman's Place
Learn more about A Woman's Place (AWP) by exploring the information below. Be sure to check out all of our Programs & Services by visting our Counseling Program, Legal Program, and Education & Training Program pages for more information on AWP’s complete roster of free, private, and confidential services.
What is AWP?
AWP provides a full range of assistance and support services for victims of domestic abuse and violence and their children, including a free 24-hour confidential hotline, a full-service residential shelter, individual and group counseling, legal and medical advocacy, and a children’s program. As domestic violence is a community issue, requiring community effort and support to successfully eradicate, AWP also provides comprehensive community-based domestic violence training, education, outreach, and advocacy.
Vision
A Woman's Place envisions a society in which all individuals are safe in their intimate and familial relationships and have the space to thrive and develop to their full potential.
Mission
A Woman's Place (AWP) is a feminist, community-based social change organization committed to ending intimate and familial violence for all.
We do this by:
- Enhancing safety for victims, families, and communities;
- Securing justice for victims;
- Engaging the community and building its capacity to respond to and prevent domestic abuse and violence; and,
- Working to change institutions, systems, and individual practices that condone and perpetuate violence and abuse.
History
Founded in 1976 as a storefront, drop-in domestic violence counseling center in Sellersville, Pa., A Woman’s Place (AWP) incorporated as a private, community benefit organization the following year. Above that storefront center was AWP’s first shelter for women seeking safety from abuse. The first woman seeking safety arrived with her two children at the tiny, one-room shelter apartment on Christmas Eve 1976.
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A Woman's Place Highlights 1976 - 2011
AWP Highlights
Choose to Date. Choose to be Safe.
Facts according to the National Institute of Justice……
1: One in Ten teens admits to being a victim of physical dating violence.
2: Teen dating abuse generally takes place in one of the partners’ homes.
3: One in Four teens report verbal, physical, sexual or emotional abuse each year.
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