AWS is honored to be one of four organizations selected as a recipient of Midori Kai Inc. support in 2010 and 2011.

Join us at the upcoming Midori Kai Boutique September 11, 2010

Governor eliminates state funding to Domestic Violence Programs. You can help!

Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Sustainers of Change Program

Volunteer and MLAM training

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.