Helping Children Heal

They are sometimes called the “hidden” victims of domestic violence. But for children who witness violence in their home or experience it directly, there is nothing hidden about it. It is all too visible, all too hurtful, all too real. Our name is Center for Hope...

Hey, Respect Your Elders!

Center for Hope & Safety received a hotline call from a woman who’d been married for 50 years and abused throughout her entire marriage. She was still married. She had no intention of leaving her husband; she just needed someone to talk to. A rabbi reported to us...

Transforming a life – Joy’s Story

Center for Hope & Safety’ Transitional Housing provides women with longer-term housing, giving them the necessary time to get on back on their own feet. Joy fled a life of constant abuse and was able to find help from Center for Hope & Safety and...

One Journey, Many Pathways

Not far from the children’s zoo and train ride in Van Saun County Park in Paramus, NJ is a brick pathway  winding its way amid a garden of flowers and shrubs. It is a quiet enclave, intentionally so. Take a stroll along the Pathway, look closely, and you’ll...

Believe her, and believe in her

“Sorry that your mother dropped you on your head,Maybe her mother dropped her tooIn the end we all get droppedWe all get back and blue.No one gets a free ride,None of us is spared.”– Mash up of Carly Simon songs.  This  70’s pop singer hit the...