Few apartments available at "A Place of Our Own" (ADWAS) in Seattle, WA!

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ADWAS provides transitional housing apartments for women and their
children escaping violence. There are 19-units with support programs
located in the same building.

Deaf and Deaf-Blind women and their children may stay up for 2 years
(but it is not required).

You may apply no matter where you live.

Housing amenities:
-Fully furnished apartment
-Common area in the building for gatherings
-Washers and dryers on-site
-Neighborhood park
-An elementary school close by
-Structured activities for children living in the building
-Support groups for moms

Please contact Kay Amos at kay@adwas.org for more information or for an
application!
 
I think it is a wonderful organization and a beautiful building.

However--why did they have to advertise where their location is especially if they are trying to protect the abused?
 
Byrdie714 said:
I think it is a wonderful organization and a beautiful building.

However--why did they have to advertise where their location is especially if they are trying to protect the abused?
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Have to agree, Byrdie. It is dangerous to release the location of a safe house. I don't know that this would actually qualify as a safe house, though.

That being said, this is a wonderful organization, and I'm glad to see that the specific needs of deaf and deaf/blind women are being considered. I read some time back where this organization had gotten a grant to develop this program.
 
jillio said:
Have to agree, Byrdie. It is dangerous to release the location of a safe house. I don't know that this would actually qualify as a safe house, though.

That being said, this is a wonderful organization, and I'm glad to see that the specific needs of deaf and deaf/blind women are being considered. I read some time back where this organization had gotten a grant to develop this program.
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I remember when it started in the basement of the director's house!

I remember when they got their grant to have the national tdd hotline. I am also going to assume since that there location is advertised that it is also heavily secured.

BTW--it's in a nice neighborhood with accessibility to transit.
 
Byrdie714 said:
I remember when it started in the basement of the director's house!

I remember when they got their grant to have the national tdd hotline. I am also going to assume since that there location is advertised that it is also heavily secured.

BTW--it's in a nice neighborhood with accessibility to transit.
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Yeah, I would assume that they have taken security precautions. It is also possible that they have a second location for anyone who needs a less obvious residence.

Yes, the nice neighborhood reduces the liklihood of any problems, and close to transit is a must for these women and children, as they often escape the home with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
 
I also know that they have an underground network where women are taken from house to house to escape from their abusive partners......
 
Byrdie714 said:
I also know that they have an underground network where women are taken from house to house to escape from their abusive partners......
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There you go. That would be their safe house network. The women in trasitional housing are not in immediate danger.
 
jillio said:
There you go. That would be their safe house network. The women in trasitional housing are not in immediate danger.
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I was rooming with a friend when a woman was dropped off and I knew her. She told us what was going on and I felt bad for her.

My roomie took her to the next safe house with me giving her money to help.
 
Byrdie714 said:
I was rooming with a friend when a woman was dropped off and I knew her. She told us what was going on and I felt bad for her.

My roomie took her to the next safe house with me giving her money to help.
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On behalf of DV victims every where...thank you for helping.

The situation is rampant. And it seems with the added stress of economic issues right now, we are getting more and more cases. Just this week, we had an incident of a man holding his wife and child hostage at gunpoint, and threatening to kill them both. Not a day goes by that we don't have several phone calls from women seeking assistance.
 
jillio said:
On behalf of DV victims every where...thank you for helping.

The situation is rampant. And it seems with the added stress of economic issues right now, we are getting more and more cases. Just this week, we had an incident of a man holding his wife and child hostage at gunpoint, and threatening to kill them both. Not a day goes by that we don't have several phone calls from women seeking assistance.
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I'm sure we will be seeing more of it as the economy falters.
 
jillio said:
Have to agree, Byrdie. It is dangerous to release the location of a safe house. I don't know that this would actually qualify as a safe house, though.

That being said, this is a wonderful organization, and I'm glad to see that the specific needs of deaf and deaf/blind women are being considered. I read some time back where this organization had gotten a grant to develop this program.
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I'm thinking that this place may be ran more like a halfway apartment house than a safe house, although it is being advertised as a safe place. The first place I moved to when I left foster care was similar to the one in the OP, with all the same stuff included, and for the same kind of people...women and children, and for up to 2 years. And this place is also advertised in the free "for rent" magazines. You are accepted there regardless of your credit and background status and you can move in right away at any hour of the day anytime you need to. No men allowed upstairs above the first floor (which is lobby, living room, and cafeteria). The nuns ran it. There were ample security at the front doors, and there are no back way out except for emergency exits which are locked from the outside but can still escape from the inside in case of a fire. I only lived in the halfway house for about six months until I got my first SSI check, and then I moved out. This place has about I would guess 160 apartments on 8 floors. I lived on the top floor.

I think they may be just trying to make women and children trying to escape violent aware of this place so they know where to go. But still...I'm not so sure they should have advertised where it is.

My grandmother used to run a battered women shelter but eventually she had to step down as the administrator of the shelter because she felt overwhelmed by the demands of this job and also emotionally from seeing so many abused women and children. The location was kept secret, I believe. Currently, what she does is help a bit in running the place by donating seeds and egg cartons and other stuff because this shelter, the people there live completely off the land and grow everything and recycle everything and do their own farming and stuff to help put food on the table.
 
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