Healthy Families of Clallam County on Wednesday opens a 30-day transitional home for low-income and homeless victims in immediate need of fleeing the dangers of domestic violence.
Hope House, so named because it is intended to give hope to those in need, will give crisis-level domestic violence victims the shelter they need to safely escape spousal abuse and mental torment.
“We want them to be 30 days out of crises before they go to the Rose House,” said Laurey Hansen-Carl, executive director of Healthy Families of Clallam County, a United Way-funded agency.
“Hope House will give them that opportunity.”
Unlike Rose House, which has operated almost 10 years at 531 E. Fifth St. in Port Angeles, Hope House is at a location that will remain confidential to provide additional security to domestic violence victims whose lives are endangered, Hansen-Carl said.
Rose House has aided about 120 domestic violence victims across the North Olympic Peninsula — even from the Seattle area — since is opened in 1995.
“We are cooperating with the Forks and Port Townsend abuse facilities and can shelter those from Port Townsend and Forks to get them out of town,” said Rebecca Korby, domestic violence and sexual assault program manager for Healthy Families.
“We get a lot of people from Seattle.”
