Are you or someone you know no longer safe at home
and need safe refuge?
Please contact our 24-hour crisis line for services
(954) 761-1133
 
  FAQs About WID Services  

 

1. How can I get help?
2. What services does WID offer? 
3. How can I access WID services?
4. Are services provided only to Broward residents?
5. Are men eligible for participant services?
6. How do you determine if a person is appropriate for counseling at WID?
7. Do you help people with other abuse besides physical?
8. How many participants can be sheltered at once?
9. What is the length of time a participant can stay at the shelter?
10. Are children sheltered with their mothers?
11. If the shelter is full, how does WID help women?
12. Where are the children while their mothers are getting services?
13. What do you do for the participants on holidays?
14. How do you help participants with housing and employment?
15. Is there an age limit on the children to enter shelter?
16. Do you take elderly people?
17. Can women or men volunteer to come for counseling or do they need to be court ordered?
18. Is there a fee to stay at the shelter? For outreach counseling?
19. Can pets be brought into shelter?
20. How is WID funded?
21. How can people donate clothing or furniture to participants?
22. Will the Thrift Store pick up donations?
23. Do you send advocates to do outreach work for victims who are unable to come to WID on their own?
24. Are there any other WID shelters in Broward County or the State of Florida?

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FAQs About Domestic Violence

1. How can I report domestic violence?
2. What is the profile of a victim of domestic violence?
3. Why do women/men stay in abusive relationships?
4. What is the importance of a restraining order and how does it help?
5. What does it cost to get a restraining order? 
6. How successful are the service programs?
7. If child and elderly abuse are mandatory reportable offenses, why is spousal abuse not in the same category?
8. Why is battering considered a "learned behavior" instead of a sickness or mental disability?
9. Is anger management an appropriate referral for batterers?

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Spanish and Creole.           

 

 

   

 
 
 

 

 
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