Safer Path builds awareness of family violence and sexual assault, empowers victims, supports survivors’ healing, and creates a safe and abuse-free community.
Serve as the expert resource of support services for victims; ensure physical safety while encouraging & empowering them to make choices
Advocate for victims of Family Violence, Sexual Assault, Teen Dating Violence & Stalking
These are our values: Client-Centered: We believe our clients. We do not judge blame, or question their choices. We are compassionate, patient, flexible, present, and empathetic. We understand the importance of confidentiality. Clients are not overlooked, made to feel incapable, or talked down to. We are someone’s support system, we are advocates, and we do not drop the ball.
Empowering Teamwork: We respect and own our personal experiences. Our foundation is dependable, supportive, strong, humorous, creative, dedicated and persistent. We work together to build relationships with trust, understanding, and valuing each other’s differences, despite the hardships.
Leadership: We are leaders who recognize the unique nature of this work, learn from our history, develop solutions, establish stability, and build community trust, while being good stewards of all resources.
Security: We are vigilant with the safety of our staff and clients because lives depend on it. It is our duty to provide a safe place to prepare a framework for a secure future.
Hope: We provide education, prevention, and change to move families from victims to survivors; thereby creating hope for the future.
If you're in a dangerous situation, we would like to help you gain the strength you need to make changes to your life and find safety.
Services include:
- Crisis intervention. Our trauma-informed team is trained to safety plan and provide emotional support during difficult times. We assist our clients with an individualized service plan and provide resources that best fit their needs.
- Community resource referrals. Our team collaborates with multiple community resources to assist the client with their needs. We provide information and referrals to resources that include medical care, legal assistance, DFPS, counseling and treatment services, etc.
- Legal advocacy. Safer Path assists clients in identifying individual legal needs including court accompaniment, legal rights and options, and support in the pursuit of those options.
- Sexual assault victim services. Our team is trained to assist law enforcement agencies and clients regarding appropriate medical care. Our team will inform clients of their rights and options and also collaborate with LASSA for any legal aid assistance for our sexual assault survivors.
- Support groups. Our agency provides emotional support options including in-house peer support and referrals for individual therapy and other family counseling resources.
- Transitional housing assistance. All services are free and available to women, men and children. Everyone has a right to be safe in their family and nobody deserves to be abused.
- Transportation and accompaniment. Our team assists clients and law enforcement agencies in arranging transportation to and from emergency medical facilities. We also transport clients to destinations that involve clients’ case management.
BIPP is designed to help those who choose to use violence in intimate relationships learn to become accountable for their choices and end abusive behavior.
- Program Length 24 weeks.
- Fees: $25 per group session = $600 for 24 group sessions.
- Eligibility is determined during Intake Assessment Process.
- For information about BIPP services, call the Administrative Office Monday - Friday 8 am-5 pm. Only at 830-569-2001
- Completion and Termination criteria are determined by participants’ willingness to follow group rules, guidelines, and attendance requirements.
- Participants are required to attend one BIPP Group Orientation held monthly or on an as-needed basis ($25 orientation fee).
- Program facilitator’s role is to hold participants accountable for their abusive behaviors and to encourage participants to use critical and reflective thinking about their use of abuse and the effect it has on themselves, partners, and children.
Our expert educators work with you to build the training or lesson you need. We provide educational media, supplemental materials, and customized sessions for youth and adults.
Shelters function because of the work of volunteers. We need your time, talent, and treasure to end domestic violence.
We gladly accept groups, organizations or individuals for service.
Our Begin Again Thrift store accepts donations and is open for shopping.
All proceeds benefit Safer Path.
Interested in volunteering? Please click here.
| Monday: CLOSED |
| Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Thursday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Friday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Saturday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Sunday: CLOSED |