Seeking Safe Harbor: How Public Policy Is Sinking the Future of Domestic Violence Shelters

Seeking Safe Harbor uncovers the forces making emergency domestic violence shelter work untenable--vague and ever-expanding mandates, political pressures to operate in ways counter to survivors' needs, and unstable funding mechanisms--and describes what this means for the survivors who rely on these nonprofit organizations. Using novel interview data alongside a wide body of qualitative and quantitative evidence, this book centers the experiences and expertise of the oft-overlooked middleme...