Recent News and Updates
Rescuing Milo and Otis
Within the first few days of our SAF-T program being open to participants, the program proved to play a key part in keeping families together and safe. One of our first participants to take advantage of the program was extremely gracious that we had this type of program for her. She arrived in our shelter [...]
HOPE is an Organization of Social Change…
…whose mission is the safe elimination of domestic violence through intervention, prevention, and collaboration. SOCIAL CHANGE? What does that mean? Social change refers to the progress in the social order of a society. It begins in the thought processes of humans. In the case of the HOPE Center, it refers to the Domestic Violence movement [...]
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words
Or… What have they been feeding you? During the fall of 2005, a group of thoughtful young women took-on clothing giant, Abercrombie &Fitch for their degrading and offensive t-shirt slogans. Scaffolded by the Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania, the young women staged a “Girlcott” and their activism and ultimate success garnered national [...]
Who’s to Blame? …Not the Victim!
Who’s to Blame? - Not the victim! I have the absolute right to walk down the street with $20 bills hanging out of every pocket. Regardless of how imprudent that action may be, NO ONE has the right to take them from me – or to harm me in that attempt. If someone succeeded [...]
Sheltering Animals and Families Together (SAF-T)
The Alle-Kiski Area HOPE Center focuses on helping victims of domestic violence. In November of 2012, we started a new program called HOPE for SAF-T, which is part of a current national program called Sheltering Animals and Families Together (SAF-T). This program assists victims of domestic violence with bringing their pets (dogs and cats) [...]
