Counseling (Free or Sliding Scale) * (ANY/ALL Types of Counseling)

Counseling Clinic
Counseling groups, individual sessions, and support groups offered by trained staff provide clients with the ongoing support to grow, heal, and rebuild their lives. Whether a woman is in crisis and wants to escape her abuser immediately, is working on issues as a survivor, or is just looking for a few friendly faces for a reality check, the Counseling Clinic and staff provide an outlet.

Drop-in Clinic is held daily Monday through Friday at 10:00 AM
Groups are scheduled for both day and evening
A special survivors' group is ongoing
Child care is provided
In 2004-2005 over 119 clients received counseling at the Outreach Clinic.

Haven Hills Teen Program

The Haven Hills Teen Program is dedicated to giving teens the tools they need to create healthy relationships in the face of the violence epidemic in our society. The Teen Program focuses on learning to value ourselves and healthy communication.

Additionally, the program encourages teens to be leaders in their communities in addressing the issues of child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, teen relationship abuse, and violence. The students use art to express their feelings and participate in a support group to further explore these feelings. The group is for both boys and girls. For more information call (818) 887-7481.

These pictures are a result of a Windows Between Worlds project that allows the children in the shelter school to express their feelings through artwork. The students are asked to complete the sentence "The Monster in me is....." and the teacher gives them some samples of feelings - sad, conflicted, angry, happy, etc. This helps the children deal with some of the emotions they have.

Children's Programs
The following programs are provided for children by Haven Hills:

Detection and prevention services
Individual and family counseling
Therapy groups for ages 5-11 and Teen Therapy Groups -topics addressed include anger management, self-esteem, what is domestic violence/abuse, emotions/identifying feelings
Play therapy
Art therapy
"Window Between Worlds" -an expressive art group focusing on building self-esteem
Parent education-topics include effects of domestic violence on children, alternatives to spanking/discipline techniques, developmental stages, effects of mother's childhood
On-site school at the crisis shelter - the half-day program provides K-12 instruction from a credentialed teacher, in addition to GED and introduction to college material.