PERSONAL COUNSELING

DATING/DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Comprehensive battered women’s programs.  Also work with adolescent dating violence, provide counseling.  Temporary anonymous shelter, assistance with relocation.

  • Womanshelter/Companeras, Holyoke
    www.womanshelter.org 
    Tel:  413-536-1628
  • YWCA ARCH Program, Springfield 
    Tel:  413-733-7100 
    Safelink Tel:  877-785-2020
    Spanish-speaking  Tel: 1-800-223-5001
  • YWCA New Beginnings, Westfield
    Tel:  413-562-1920
  • Necessities/Necesidades, Northampton
    Tel:  413-586-5066
  • NESCWIT, Greenfield
    Tel:  413-772-0806
  • Women’s Services Center, Pittsfield
    Tel:  413-443-0089
  • Crime Prevention/Springfield Police
    Tel:  413-787-6352
  • Child Abuse/Dept. of Social Services
    Tel:  1-800-792-5200
  • Safe Passage  Northampton, MA
    413-586-5066
    hotline:  1888-435-5282

Battered women’s program – shelter, support groups, crisis intervention and support, legal services.

  • Everywoman’s Center – Counselor /Advocate Program www.umass.edu.ewc 24 hour crisis hotline 413-545-0800 (toll free in Hampshire County only)  1-888-337-0800 all other calls, including to Teen Specialist (non-crisis) Advocacy and counseling support and information for people who are victims or survivors of rape, incest, sexual assault or battering
  • Men’s Resource Center for Change www.mrcforchange.orgMission is to support men, challenge men’s violence and develop men’s leadership in ending oppression
  • ELDER ABUSE http://www.elderabusecenter.org