After seeing a prominent need among victims of abuse and violence, the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center is hoping to establish a transitional housing facility that will prevent families from returning to an abusive household.
The HCWC is a non-profit that provides services, including counseling, advocacy, 24-hour crisis response and shelter to Hays and Caldwell County residents who are victims of family violence, dating violence, sexual assault and child abuse.
“Our ultimate goal is to create an environment where violence and abuse are not tolerated in the communities we serve,” said Marla Johnson, Executive Director of the HCWC. “We’re really about social change. Most of the work we do is about helping individual victims and prevention work but really what we want to do is we want to stop future violence.”
