Gateway Horizons

All of the individuals who come to YWCA for shelter and services are victims of violent crime, with most living in poverty and facing homelessness. The number of victims relying on YWCA’s services has increased year after year. With YWCA’s existing shelter always at capacity, we need more beds.

To forge a sustainable solution, YWCA is building a new $4 million, 25-unit shelter on our campus. This will increase capacity to protect and serve victims, assuring that YWCA can make life-saving and life-changing support available to a significantly larger number of survivors over many decades.

This project will reduce crime rates by breaking the cycle of reoccurring serious domestic violence incidents, each one of which results in a call to 911 and a need for law enforcement to intervene. It will also decrease hospitalizations, homicides, and pressure on the courts and help to address the City’s growing problem with increasing homelessness by placing victims in a stable environment where services and funding are available to assist them in becoming and staying housed.

Poverty and Domestic Violence are the leading causes of homelessness. People we serve are usually victims of both. You can provide lifechanging help by giving to the Gateway Horizons Shelter Project.

Your gift to the Gateway Horizons Project assures women and children’s safety for decades to come!

Rita is surviving the unimaginable with YWCA’s help and guidance

Rita came to YWCA’s shelter after being sexually assaulted. Before our attorney could file an Order of Protection, Rita had to leave because her ex-husband abused their young child so badly that she had to be flown to an out-of-state trauma center. The girl did not survive, but Rita did get to say goodbye. YWCA is guiding Rita through the criminal hearings for her ex and working with Child Protective Services to return her other child back to her custody and move them into their new home at YWCA’s Gateway Vista apartments.

Beth’s escape from her abusive husband literally changed her life

Beth needed to get away from her very controlling and abusive husband but they shared a phone and she does not drive so it was difficult to her reach out for help. The local medical clinic where she had regular appointments connected her with YWCA. Our housing navigator and attorney met her and snuck her out the clinic’s back door and took her to our shelter. YWCA helped her get public benefits, move into housing, and complete the paperwork for her divorce. She is at peace knowing she is safe.