Thirty-one percent of American women are physically or sexually abused by a husband or boyfriend at some point in their lives, according to a 1998 Commonwealth Fund survey.

   More than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by intimate partners in 2001, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. That same year, women accounted for 85 percent of the victims of intimate partner violence.

   SAFE House in Kingsport is a temporary shelter for victims of domestic violence and their dependent children open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

   SAFE House provides —

Victims & their Children:

• Safe, Confidential Shelter

• 24-hour Crisis Line Counseling, Information
   & Referral

• Case Management and Referral to Appropriate
  Community Resources

• Transportation to Appointments

• Individual & Group Counseling for Women
   & Children

• Criminal Justice/Legal Advocacy to Help

  Victims through Legal Processes

Abusers:

• Referral to Batterer's Program for Behavioral
  Health Services