Women and children are not part of the homeless communities we typically see in our region. You don’t pass by them on your way to work or see them at a freeway on-ramp. Yet about half of homeless people are families, and domestic violence remains a leading cause of homelessness among women and children in the U.S. today.
“Eighty percent of homeless women with children have experienced domestic violence,” said Rachel Krinsky, LifeWire’s Executive Director. “Right here in Washington state, families with children represent nearly half of the 20,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night.”
When it comes to domestic violence, there is more to getting out than just exiting an abusive relationship.
Once a person leaves, some of the things they may have to deal with range from finding a new place to live and figuring out how to financially support themselves, to learning how to be safe and about the legal options they have to stay that way.
Since 1982, LifeWire has been working to help people on the Eastside and throughout the Puget Sound area with this.
The most effective way to end homelessness is to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place. At LifeWire, we’ve known this for a long time. Now, we have the data to prove it.
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