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Safe Haven Shelter and Resource Center

Advocacy

Safe Haven Resource Center

414 W 1st St, Duluth, MN, 55802

(218) 623-1000

Website

http://safehavenshelter.org/services/legal-advocacy

Service Details

Description

Program that works on behalf of individuals and/or groups to make sure that they receive the benefits and services for which they are eligible


Additional Information

Provides services to women, children and men including:
* Twenty-hour on-call advocacy follow-up to all arrests
* Safety planning and informs victims of their rights
* Assistance in drafting Orders for Protection and Harassment Orders
* Support advocacy for all court hearings
* Transportation to hearing
* Assistance in gathering and documenting evidence in criminal and civil cases (photos of injuries)
* A communication network linking women with probation officers, prosecuting attorneys and law enforcement


Through the Legal Advocacy Program, Safe Haven Shelter has worked to move beyond the concept of only providing emergency safe housing and advocacy, to an approach that challenges each of the community's institutions to both protect victims of battering and to change the cultural facilitators of battering.


Features

  • Area Served by County
    • Aitkin County 
    • Cook County 
    • Itasca County 
    • Koochiching County 
    • Lake County 
    • St. Louis County 

Eligibility

Primarily serves Southern St. Louis Counties but can assist elsewhere are needed


Fees

There is no fee for this service.


Business Hours

8:00am - 4:00 pm, Monday - Friday


Area Served

St. Louis, Koochiching, Aitkin, Lake, Carlton, Itasca and Cook counties but all people coming to Resource Center are served


Websites

Phone Numbers

Type Number Hours
Main (218) 623-1000

Last Update

2/27/2024

Other Locations

This provider does not offer this service at other locations.

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