WEAVE

Location

1900 K Street, Sacramento

Hours

Monday through Friday 9 - 5

Phone

(916) 448-2321 (business)

(916) 920-2952 (24 hour crisis line)

Website

http://www.weaveinc.org

Established

1978

Women Escaping A Violent Environment

The primary provider of domestic violence and sexual assault services in Sacramento County. Services include: 24 hour crisis line; confidential safehouse; counseling for domestic violence victims/survivors; counseling for sexual assault victims/survivors and their significant others; legal advocacy services; Domestic Violence Response Team (partnership with Sacramento Sheriff's Department); community outreach and education.

WEAVE is one of the older service agencies of this nature in the country, and possibly the first in the state. Compared to similar programs, such as Yolo County's SADVC, WEAVE works with a much, much larger budget, with nearly 100 employees and dozens of volunteers. They also own and operate two thrift stores - Weave Thrift Arden in Arden, and Weave Thrift in Carmichael. They have the Soroptomist safehouse shelter for women and children 'escaping a violent environment'. The safehouse was the first exclusively domestic violence safehouse opened in California. WEAVE accepts donations of goods, contact them for information on how to donate clothing, furniture, and money. The main office is safely located in Midtown.

They do have a training program for people who want to volunteer, be it on the Crisis Line or another branch of services, or want to become state licensed in it and take it further as a career. The certification lasts for a year and you must attend a certain number of meetings and lectures, as well as training touch-ups, to renew it.

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