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Sarah has been a client at OneEighty for several months, and receives services of housing rental assistance and outpatient counseling.  Sarah arrived at OneEighty “very, very distraught, and in a dark place.”  She was to the point where she had briefly considered suicide, because she was not aware of other options and she wanted her pain to end.  Sarah came to OneEighty as a last-ditch effort, because of her children, who begged her to get better.

Sarah first went to housing, to find some alternative to living with an alcoholic mother and her mother’s boyfriend after her husband had... Read More

Nelly first accessed our Wayne County Victim Advocate while trying to learn about her rights as a victim if she chose to leave her husband, who was extremely abusive. Besides being sexually abusive, he would sometimes kill animals if he was unhappy with her actions. She was afraid to leave because if she couldn’t take her dog with her, she was sure that the dog would be dead in a matter of days.

Her Advocate told her about OneEighty’s shelter and the Pet Project, which allows for victims’ pets to be boarded in a safe environment while their owners stay in the shelter. Learning about... Read More