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Project Safe Snapshot
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Project Safe is a 501c3 nonprofit organization working to end domestic violence through crisis intervention, ongoing supportive services, systems change advocacy, and prevention and education. Project Safe’s primary service areas are Madison County, Oconee County, Clarke County, and Oglethorpe County, but they provide services to people from all over Georgia.
In the late 70s and early 80s, Project Safe began as a volunteer enterprise. Volunteers set up a hotline in their homes via a landline and some volunteers offered their personal homes up as shelter. These volunteers began working with a group of UGA law students and another community organization. Eventually, these three organizations combined to form Project Safe in the early 80s and the first form of emergency shelter for Project Safe was out of the basement of the Salvation Army. In the mid to late 80s, Project Safe was able to lease its own building and open its own shelter. In 1991, Project Safe incorporated as a nonprofit. Any history before that time is via stories and testimonies from past clients, volunteers, and organizers.
Today, Project Safe is able to help anyone leaving an abusive situation through a multitude of services. Project Safe offers a 24-hour Hotline and teen Textline, emergency and confidential shelter, housing assistance, legal advocacy, and financial assistance. Although the majority of clients are from Madison, Athens-Clarke, Oconee, and Oglethorpe Counties, we’re a routing point for a national hotline and assist people from across Georgia and out of state.
Today, Project Safe is able to help anyone leaving an abusive situation through a multitude of services. Project Safe offers a 24-hour Hotline and teen Textline, emergency and confidential shelter, housing assistance, legal advocacy, and financial assistance. Although the majority of clients are from Madison, Athens-Clarke, Oconee, and Oglethorpe Counties, we’re a routing point for a national hotline and assist people from across Georgia and out of state.
