Alice Housing's mandate is to provide housing for women and children who are survivors of abuse, but it does much more than that. Women often remain in abusive situations because they lack not only housing, but also family support, financial, and emotional resources. Alice Housing offers a supportive environment in which healing can begin and women can make positive changes in their lives and the lives of their children.

While emergency shelters respond to short-term emergencies, Alice Housing provides safe and secure housing for an extended period.

Second-Stage Housing

Women and children entering the second-stage housing component of Alice Housing are in a transition from either an emergency shelter or from other temporary shelter. Most have left the abusive household leaving everything behind. Alice Housing becomes the “second stage” of their efforts to live a life free of violence.

The Alice Housing program exists for women and children who have suffered physical, emotional, verbal, sexual or financial abuse in a domestic relationship with an intimate partner.

In safe housing, women and their children can plan their future in a safe, non-violent environment. While at Alice Housing, women commit to ending the relationship with the abuser and plan and work towards life goals.

In second-stage housing, families can stay up to two years in any one of our 19 housing units based on their family size.