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Domestic Violence Services in Other Languages
If you or your family is in immediate danger, call 911.
If you have been abused by an intimate partner, contact:
- 211 Community Information Line by dialing 211 or 1-800-621-4636.
- The toll-free "Peace in the Home" Helpline, 1-888-847-7205 for help in non-English languages. Peace in the Home Helpline offers one-call access that connects non- and limited-English speaking domestic violence victims to a community-based agency that can serve their language and service needs. Callers can get help in 14 languages: Amharic or Amaryna, Chinese, Japanese, Khmer, Lao, Russian, Romanian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog Thai, Tigrigna, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Additional languages are planned contact peaceinthehome@seattle.gov for more info.
Help for non-English speaking domestic violence victims - News release, 1/7/09
- Multi-lingual Access Project (MAP) web site at: www.map-seattle.org. The MAP website provides a wide range of information including how to get out of immediate danger and find safe housing. Interpreters, police, shelters, hotlines, advocacy services and multilingual service agencies are listed along with information for concerned relatives, friends and co-workers. Domestic violence information is available in 13 languages: Amharic or Amaryna, Chinese, Hindi, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Punjabi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese.
MAP Member Agencies:
- Asian Pacific Islander Women & Family Safety Center provides regional comprehensive culturally relevant services on domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking to Asian and Pacific Islander community members, service providers, survivors, and their families.
- Asian Counseling & Referral Service offers a broad array of regional human services, including services to women and their children impacted by domestic violence, and behavioral health programs to Asian Pacific Americans in King County.
- Consejo Counseling & Referral Services provides culturally competent mental health, domestic violence, and family support services focusing on, but not limited to, the Hispanic/Latino community.
- Chaya serves South Asian women who have been impacted by domestic violence and raises awareness of domestic violence issues.
- Chinese Information and Service Center offers support and advocacy to the neediest members of Seattle's Asian community: recent immigrants, at-risk youth, domestic violence victims/survivors and the elderly.
- Refugee Women’s Alliance is a multi-ethnic organization that provides refugee and immigrant women and families with culturally and linguistically appropriate services, including domestic violence services.
The City of Seattle has committed $100,000 in federal funds to the MAP project over the past four years.
Information
For more information, call the Seattle Human Services Department’s Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention program at 206-233-2774, or e-mail endviolence@seattle.gov.
For more information about our partners and other programs and services, visit:
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