MA Hotline:
SAFELINK--1-877-785-2020
Safelink is the Massachusetts Statewide Hotline Program of Casa Myrna
Vazquez. It has multilingual capacity. Safelink has the daily update on bed
availability for all shelters and it can link callers to any shelter
Attleboro:
New Hope, Inc.—800-323-4673
Spanish
Boston:
Casa Myrna Vasquez—617-521-0146
(legal aide number)
Spanish
Mary Lawson Foreman House—800-992-2600
Renewal House—508-566-6881
Brockton:
Womansplace—508-588-2041
Cambridge:
Transition House—617-661-7203
Spanish, French, Haitian Creole
Chelsea:
Harbor Me—617-889-2111
Clinton:
Battered Women’s Resources—877-342-9355 (hotline)
Spanish, Swahili
Danvers:
North Shore ARC--978 750-6001 ext 221--978 774-4478 fax
clpowers@nsarc.org
Website: www.nsarc.org
Dorchester:
F.I.N.E.X. House—617-228-1054
Spanish, Haitian Creole
Fall River:
Our Sister’s Place—508-677-0224
Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Women’s Center (SSTR)—508-675-0087
Portuguese, French, Creole, Italian, and some Khmer
Fitchburg:
Women’s Resources—508-342-9355
Framingham:
Women’s Protective Services—508-820-0834; 508-626-8686; 800-593-1125
Spanish, French, Portuguese
Gardner:
Women’s Resources—508-630-1031
Gloucester:
Help for Abused Women and Children (HAWC)—978-744-6841 (hotline); 978-744-8552
(office)
Spanish
Haverhill:
Women’s Resource Center—978-373-4041
Spanish
Holyoke:
Womanshelter/Campaneras—413-536-1628
Spanish
Hyannis:
Independence House—800-439-6507
Spanish, Portuguese
Jamaica Plain:
Elizabeth Stone House—617-522-3417
Spanish. Also have access to interpreters for most languages.
Lawrence:
Women’s Resource Center—508-658-2480
Leominster:
Battered Women’s Resources—508-342-9355
Lowell:
Alternative House—508-454-1436
Korean, Spanish, Khmer, Xhona
Malden:
Services Against Family Violence (SAF-V)—617-324-2221
(Temporarily taken over by RESPOND)
Malden:
Tri-City Community Action Program, Inc.--781 322-4125
Representing low income
people with non fee generating civil cases (evictions, SSI, divorces etc.).
Nantucket:
A Safe Place—508-228-2111
Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, and American Sign Language
New Bedford:
New Bedford Women’s Center—508-992-4222
Newburyport:
Women’s Crisis Center—978-465-2155 (hotline); 978-465-0999 (office)
German, Spanish
Northampton:
Necessities/Necesidades—413-586-5066
Spanish, Mandarin, French, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese, Cambodian
YWCA of Western Massachusetts (ARCH)—413-733-7100
Spanish
Norwood:
New Hope, Inc.—800-323-4673
Plymouth:
South Shore Women’s Center—508-746-2664
Quincy:
DOVE—617-471-1234; 617-471-5087
Spanish
Roxbury:
Renewal House—617-566-6881 (hotline); 617-277-4194 (office)
Spanish
Salem:
Help for Abused Women and Children (HAWC)—978-744-6841
Somerville:
Respond—617-623-5996 (hotline); 617-623-5900 (office)
Spanish, Haitian Creole, French
Springfield:
YWCA of Western Massachusetts (ARCH)—413-733-7100
Taunton:
New Hope, Inc.—800-323-4673
Waltham:
Battered Women Support Com.—781-899-8676
Support Committee for Battered Women—800-899-4000
Spanish
Webster:
New Hope, Inc.—800-323-4673
Westfield:
YWCA of Western Massachusetts (ARCH)—413-733-7100
Whitinsville:
New Hope, Inc.—800-323-4673
Worcester:
Daybreak—508-755-9030
Spanish, Vietnamese
Massachusetts Organizations:
Battered Women’s Advocacy Project
C/o Suffolk University
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-357-7017
Mass. Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups Inc. (MCSBWSG)
C/o Jane Doe
14 Beacon St., Suite 507
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-248-0922
National Funds and Guilds:
Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF)
383 Rhode Island St., Suite 304
San Francisco, CA 94103-5133
Phone: 415-252-8900
Fax: 415-252-8991
E-mail: fund@fvpf.org
Website: http://www.fvpf.org
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (NOW LDEF)
119 Constitution Ave., N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-544-4470
Fax: 202-546-8605
E-mail: nowldef_dc@nowldefdc.org
Website: http://www.nowldef.org
National Lawyers Guild, Inc.
14 Beacon St., Suite 602
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-227-9727
Fax: 617-227-5495
E-mail: NIPgail@igc.org
Website: http://www.nlg.org/nip/homepage.htm
Asian Programs:
Asian Shelter and Advocacy Project (ASAP)—617-338-2355 (hotline)
617-338-2352 (office)
Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATFADV)—617-338-2355
Chinese, Khmer, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi
