What Your Gift Can Do
Safe Futures is grateful for the generosity of our community which enables us to provide the best services possible to individuals, families and the southeastern Connecticut community as a whole. Your gift of time, talents and treasures helps to create a safe future for everyone in southeastern Connecticut. Safe Futures accepts cash gifts, in-kind items and gifts of time/skills/expertise through our volunteer program.
Financial donations are one of the best ways to ensure that Safe Futures can provide the vital services to everyone who needs help.
How Financial Donations are Used:
$1,000 provides one week of emergency shelter for victims and children.
$1,000 provides 45 elementary school children with a 9-week Violence is Preventable Program.
$500 provides a child victim of domestic violence or sexual assault with 10, individual counseling sessions with a child advocate.
$500 provides 10 sessions of a domestic violence support group with two facilitators.
$250 provides five advocacy sessions with a Civil Court advocate
$100 provides two individual counseling sessions for a domestic violence victim
$50 provides food and supplies for a day for one family in our shelter.
$50 buys a bus pass or train ticket to relocate victims in danger
$25 buys a gift or gas card to area grocery and department stores
$25 buys minutes for a confidential cell phone