How would I go about starting one in my home town? I need to know so this way I can get it started. We don't really have many runaways or battered women but I want them from other counties to know they can come and find a place of safety.
Please help me this is really important to me.
2007-03-26 11:31:21 · 9 answers · asked by Jorge's Wife 4 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
First off you will need to research the requirements to have such a facility. Whether or not grants are available or whether you would need to acquire private funding. Second: speak with heads of other facilities in other towns to see the overall challenges. This is noble what you are intending on doing. I have worked with our local home in the past and trust me it is a needed thing. I hope you will dive into it fully and continue your education to make it a great sucess!
2007-03-26 13:52:18 · answer #1 · answered by ShoelessJoes 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's good. It's nice that you want to do something for runaway girls and batterd women with their children. Try to find a website on domestic violence and see if there's a phone number you can call to ask them about how to start one. You'll need a lot of money and time to run one. Good luck.
2007-03-26 17:26:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Try and find a local half-way house that already exists and write to them and ask to speak to the person who set it up. I'm sure they'd be happy to spend some time giving you advice. Maybe contact the CAB (if you're in the UK) as they seem to have loads of information on that sort of thing.
Either way, it sounds like a great idea and I wish you all the best!!!!
2007-03-26 12:08:46 · answer #3 · answered by kittenwhiskers456 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why not find out what the founder of the women's refuge movement did.. her name is Erin Pizzey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Pizzey
"She began in the Goldhawk Road, West London where abused women were offered tea, sympathy and a place to stay for them and their children. The demand for a service for women survivors of domestic violence grew and soon public funding became available. Today the movement has been rebranded as Women's Aid and garners millions of pounds a year from a variety of sources although primarily from the state. Erin Pizzey parted company with the movement owing to a difference of opinion regarding its underlying philosophy."
"According to many webpages, Pizzey has said, or has been quoted as saying: "Men are gentle, honest and straightforward. Women are convoluted, deceptive and dangerous." Contrary to what it may seem from that popular quote, she has not promoted a stance that most women are violent or that women are more violent than men. Her view is opposed by those who placed the blame solely upon "prevailing patriarchal attitudes." She lamented that the movement she started had moved from the personal to the political."
"In her book Prone to Violence (full text available online) she propounded the theory that many of the women who took refuge had a personality such that they sought abusive relationships. The book contains numerous stories of disturbed families alongside a discussion of the reasons why the modern state care-taking agencies are largely ineffective (one extreme situation was when a woman in the refuge bit off a top of another woman's finger.)"
Be prepared for them to beat the hell out of each other, I guess.
2007-03-26 13:58:05 · answer #4 · answered by Happy Bullet 3 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Talk to local charitys about funding. and go to a local social services to see if they can help out.
2007-03-26 11:50:36 · answer #5 · answered by vivid_dream6703 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You might want to ask your mayor of your city and get people to sign papers, supporting your idea.
2007-03-26 11:36:32 · answer #6 · answered by Jane 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes we all know there is no such thing as battered men and runaway boys. They already have tons of safehouses for women no need to start the 1,000,000,000th one.
2007-03-26 13:28:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 6⤋
Let them stay at your place
2007-03-26 11:34:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
awww.... that's cute.
2007-03-26 16:35:19 · answer #9 · answered by devil's advocate 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋