Promise Place provides comprehensive domestic violence services to Fayette, Spalding, Pike, and Upson Counties. Promise Place offers emergency shelter, 24 hour crisis hotline, crisis intervention, safety planning, legal advocacy, weekly support groups, children’s programs, emergency needs assistance, and community education. Promise Place now serves over 3,000 victims of domestic violence and their children each year. In addition, Promise Place reaches over 7,000 students each year through our Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program taught in 9th grade Health classes and middle schools.
Promise Place relies predominantly on the community for donations and volunteers to continue to provide the much needed services for victims of domestic violence and their children.
- Emergency Shelter
- Support Groups
- Legal Advocacy
- Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program
- Children’s Program
- Law Enforcement Training
- Safety Planning
Housing Alternatives
Emergency Domestic Violence Shelter
A 15 bed capacity emergency shelter provides immediate safety to victims of domestic violence and their children at a safe, confidential location and is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Services are provided for families while in shelter to maintain their safety until it is safe for them to resume life on their own. Promise Place is a state certified shelter.
Transitional Housing
A 12 month housing program is available to survivors of domestic violence who are past the immediate danger but need a temporary place to stay until more permanent housing can be afforded. This program provides continued emotional support and linkage to resources.
Community Outreach
Community Education
Promise Place provides information on domestic violence to the community through workshops, health fairs, as well as other community and business presentations. Please contact our Administrative Office at (770) 461-3839 to schedule Promise Place to come speak to your organization.
Law Enforcement Training
Promise Place provides a comprehensive domestic violence training with POST credits to all law enforcement agencies within our judicial circuit on an annual basis.
Domestic Violence Task Force
Promise Place is an active member of the Griffin Judicial Circuit Domestic Violence Task Force in which multiple agencies, individuals and other groups collaborate on a monthly basis in an effort to 1) promote and encourage community advocacy against domestic violence and 2) improve communication and working relationships in the community between agencies and personnel working for the prevention of domestic violence.
Support Groups
Support groups for victims of domestic violence meet several times a week
throughout the Griffin Judicial Circuit, which include Fayette, Spalding, Pike and Upson counties.
Please contact the administrative office at (770) 461-3839 for more information.
Crisis Hotline
Available 7 days a week, 365 days a year. All calls are answered by trained staff and volunteers. Callers receive crisis counseling, danger assessments, resources, referrals, safety planning and admittance into shelter when needed.
Counseling
Crisis intervention, emotional support, support groups on site and guidance are provided by staff to clients. Referrals are made for counseling with a licensed therapist.