In 2004-05, AWS:

• Provided almost 4,000 shelter bed nights for women and children
• Responded to over 700 crisis calls, 82% of them in non-English languages
• Reached 7,428 people through community building activities
• Collaborated with over two dozen community-based, state-wide, and national coalitions and organizations
  

These statistics show the outcomes of our success:

• 88% of residents at our shelter are able to maintain transitional or permanent housing away from domestic violence.
• 100% of women and children improve their nutrition and health while residing at AWS.
• 90% of women increase their monthly income after their stay at AWS, most by more than 75%. 

Project Achievements

2002-03: Anti-Trafficking Projects:
AWS is the first and only domestic violence shelter in the Bay Area explicitly developing an anti-trafficking program in addition to its domestic violence work.

AWS has created an anti-trafficking program as part of both its Direct Services and its Community Building Program. Currently, AWS is a member of the Asian Anti-Trafficking Collaborative (AATC), which includes three other Asian anti-violence social service and legal service agencies (Narika, Cameron House, and Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach).

2000: Founding of AWS's Community Building Program:
AWS is one of the few domestic violence shelters in the nation to offer comprehensive community-building and social change initiatives, violence intervention and prevention-based services. Through our Community Building Program, AWS engages in community education, community mobilization, technical assistance, support for community action teams, and sharing.

1991: Founding of AWS's Multilingual Access Model (MLAM) Program:
MLAM offers language support to non-English-speaking survivors of violence. Currently, AWS offers on-call support in over 30 different languages and dialects. AWS also spearheaded the City-wide MLAM Project, where AWS's trained domestic violence and language advocates are shared among five anti-violence agencies throughout San Francisco.

1988: Founding of AWS:
AWS was the first shelter in northern California — and only the third in the nation — to offer cultural- and language-accessible services to non-English-speaking Asian refugee and immigrant survivors of domestic violence.