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Call to access a range of free services including confidential support from a trained staff member, support finding a local health facility with services like sexual assault forensic exams, someone to help you talk through what happened, local resources that can assist with your next steps toward healing and recovery, referrals for long term support in your area, information about the laws in your community, and basic information about medical concerns.

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Help Hotlines
Emergency
Support Network
Navigating the System
Sexual Assault Survivors
Provides direct representation to immigrant survivors of violence seeking immigration benefits. While this unit handles several hundred immigration cases per year, the demand for assistance continues to be greater than the available resources meaning there is a long waitlist for clients seeking help.

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Human Trafficking Survivors
Immigrants
Citizenship & Immigration
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Domestic Violence Survivors
Survivors
Navigating the System
Sexual Assault Survivors
Guarantees access to life-altering forms of immigration relief to children and youth who have been abandoned, abused or neglected by their parents.

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Representation
Teens
Advocacy & Legal Aid
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Immigrants
Citizenship & Immigration
Children
Citizenship
Confidential help for Veterans, service members, and their families at no cost in a non-medical setting. Services include counseling for needs such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the psychological effects of military sexual trauma (MST). Referrals to other community and VA support services also provided.

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Navigating the System
Armed Forces
Mental Health Care
Family Counseling
Veterans
Sexual Assault Survivors
Counseling
Women’s health services to meet specific needs such as disease screenings, mental health treatment, recovery from military sexual trauma, maternity care and female-specific medical equipment.

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Armed Forces
Veterans
Health
Women's Health
Women
Family Planning
Fertility
Sexual Assault Survivors
Sexual & Reproductive Health
Birth Control
STD/STI Treatment & Prevention
On-going therapy services provided for any child victim who has received services from Dawson Place, up to the age of 22 depending on the needs of the client. Group, individual, and family therapy sessions also available.

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Teens
Care
Family Counseling
Individual Counseling
Counseling
Sexual Assault Survivors
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Children
Group Therapy
Mental Health Care
From small house fires to multi-state natural disasters, the American Red Cross goes wherever needed to provide clean water, safe shelter, and hot meals to those impacted by a disaster.

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Disaster Preparedness & Response
Emergency
Physical Safety
Natural Disaster Survivors
Disaster Response
A child-friendly center located in Bellingham, WA. The CAC provides a place in which a team of trained professionals interview and support children who may have been abused.
Information about child advocacy, support, and more. Referrals given as needed to help child victims and families receive the services they need.

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Teens
Sexual Assault Survivors
Navigating the System
Children
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Families
Directory of domestic violence programs throughout Washington State.

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Sexual Assault Survivors
Domestic Violence Survivors
Help Escape Violence
Emergency
Navigating the System
Immediate Safety
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Services for immediate help include 24-hour helpline, walk-in advocacy counseling, support during medical exams related to domestic violence or sexual assault, and immediate safety planning and crisis intervention from the scene of a domestic violence call.

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Emergency
Sexual Assault Survivors
Domestic Violence Survivors
Help Escape Violence
Immediate Safety
Benefits paid to widows, widowers, and dependents of eligible workers. This benefit is particularly important for young families with children. You and your family could be eligible for benefits based on the earnings of a worker who died. The deceased person must have worked long enough to qualify for benefits.

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Income
Money
Government Benefits
Survivors
Mental health assessments are provided to all child victims of abuse.

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Teens
Mental Health Evaluation
Sexual Assault Survivors
Children
Counseling
Mental Health Care
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Available for free to all families and individuals living in a county where federal or state-declared disaster has occurred. Create a personalized recovery plan, receive ongoing support and assistance completing applications for FEMA aid and submitting relevant insurance claims.

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Disaster Response
Financial Education
Credit Counseling
Natural Disaster Survivors
Helps adults or adolescents who have been affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, assault & battery, survivor of homicide, and child abuse. Services include: crisis counseling, advocacy for domestic violence and sexual assault crimes, safety planning, legal advocacy, transportation to medical, legal, and therapy appointments, Domestic Violence shelter, traditional healing and emergency assistance.

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Emergency
Domestic Violence Survivors
Sexual Assault Survivors
Health
Housing
Safe Housing
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Emergency Shelter
Victim advocates support child victims of abuse and families throughout the entire process. They offer emotional support, victim's rights information, assist in finding resources, and provide help every step of the way.

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Support Network
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Families
Teens
Children
Sexual Assault Survivors
Provides safe, confidential shelter to individuals and families fleeing domestic violence. Clients have access to basic food, clothing, personal items, and bedding if needed. Advocates are available to conduct intakes and provide advocacy twenty-four hours a day. Shelter is available for all survivors. This program is accessible to persons with disabilities and accepts service animals. Other pets may be accepted on a case by case basis.

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Emergency
Emergency Shelter
Immediate Safety
Safe Housing
In Crisis
Help Escape Violence
Sexual Assault Survivors
Domestic Violence Survivors
Support groups for survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual assault. All DVSAS support groups are free and confidential.

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Support Groups
Domestic Violence Survivors
Sexual Assault Survivors
Support Network
Community Support Services
Free, confidential, and compassionate support, crisis intervention information, education, and referral services in over 140 languages available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

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Domestic Violence Survivors
Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Emergency
In Crisis
Help Escape Violence
Immediate Safety
Sexual Assault Survivors
Help Hotlines
Every service needed to investigate and prosecute a case involving a child victim of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect is available at Dawson Place.

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Abuse or Neglect Survivors
Legal
Sexual Assault Survivors
Families
Teens
Children
If a forensic interview is requested by law enforcement for a child ages 3 - 17 who is a victim of abuse, you will be interviewed by a Child Interview Specialist.
Online chat option to access a range of free services including confidential support from a trained staff member, support finding a local health facility with services like sexual assault forensic exams, someone to help you talk through what happened, local resources that can assist with your next steps toward healing and recovery, referrals for long term support in your area, information about the laws in your community, and basic information about medical concerns.

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Sexual Assault Survivors
Help Hotlines
Emergency
Support Network
Virtual Support
Provides coordination and recovery services to individuals, families and entities adversely impacted by disaster in Whatcom County.

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Disaster Preparedness & Response
Natural Disaster Survivors
Emergency
Disaster Response
WA State certified Domestic Violence Intervention Treatment (DVIT) provider. Intimate partner violence is addressed through programs that are mandated by the court, but provide a safe and nurturing place to grow and learn. Services include Domestic Violence Assessments, support group, and individual counseling.
Navigating the legal system can be challenging. DVSAS advocates can help with protection orders, court preparation and accompaniment, and law enforcement reporting.

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Advocacy & Legal Aid
Sexual Assault Survivors
One-on-One Support
Community Support Services
Navigating the System
Legal
Help Escape Violence
Domestic Violence Survivors

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