If you are a victim of domestic violence or sexual assault, the Crisis Center can help you. We can help you deal with the emotional impact and sort out the practical issues that you may be facing.

What is Abuse?

If you are being hit, kicked, slapped, threatened, made to feel bad or stupid, isolated from friends and family, coerced or forced into sexual activity, or prevented from getting a job or from having access to money, you are being abused.

Anyone can be an abuser: spouse, partner, child, caretaker, companion, lover or friend.

If you are being abused, you may feel frightened, ashamed, sad, worthless, that you deserve to be hurt, or that you must stay with your abuser.

Many people affected by domestic violence don't think anything is wrong. You may have always thought that spouses or partners had the right to abuse you. You have the right to live without violence. The Crisis Center is willing to support and listen to you.