Family Refuge Center
Resource Details
Family Refuge Center is a community-based domestic violence project serving Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Monroe Counties in southeast West Virginia. We are committed to ending physical, sexual, and emotional abuse in families. We encourage and promote healthy family life based on mutual respect and support for all family members.
Services
Today, Family Refuge Center is a comprehensive domestic violence and sexual assault project which serves the tri-county area with a shelter, advocacy office and administrative offices in Lewisburg and outreach offices in Pocahontas and Monroe Counties, as well as in Western Greenbrier County. FRC operates five locations in three counties.
Domestic violence services include a 24- hour hot line, temporary shelter, empowerment counseling, legal advocacy, assistance and advocacy with community resources, information and referral, prevention education, support groups, adult basic education and vocational planning, children’s groups and activities, a summer day camp, a STOP team, tutoring, and children’s advocacy.
Sexual assault services include legal advocacy and court accompaniment, information and referral, crisis intervention, support groups, a SART team, child sexual abuse investigation, parent education and support.
Prevention and community education services include school programs for all grades, speakers for community education and church groups, and in service training for medical and other service providers.