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WomenSafe offers a 24-hr Copeline where trained volunteers and staff provide supportive listening and admission to an emergency shelter. WomenSafe offers an art therapy program which offers a creative outlet and promotes healing from the emotional damage. This is especially helpful to children who reveal fear through their art they could not otherwise express. WomenSafe also offers counseling as well as community support programs where the staff works with the residents on self-esteem and educating the women so they can live independently. And lastly, a mental Health Education program is offered to a variety of community en-ti-ties. In middle schools and high schools, WomenSafe provides a free 2-day training, focusing on violence- free dating and date-rape prevention.
WomenSafe reinforces that the victims are not to blame for the abuse that they have experienced.
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