Email from Doorways Doorways' safehousing sheltered a record number of households. Build healthier relationships this year with these resources for kids, youth, and adults! See Resources Looking Back at 2024 Safe harbor, healing, and hope During fiscal year 2024, with your support, Doorways' safehousing sheltered a record number of households. Our HomeStart housing program supported 65 households, a 27% increase compared to fiscal year 2023. Our Children's Services provided 1,053 sessions supporting parents and children in our shelter and housing programs, a 63% increase compared to last year. Download our 2024 snapshot to see more program numbers and quotes from the survivors they represent. Download Snapshot Looking Forward Year after year, Doorways continues to shelter more and more survivors and their families. To meet our community's growing need for safehousing, this year, Doorways will open our newly renovated shelter for survivors and their families, including a new safe kennel for their pets. These updated spaces will enable us to serve twice as many survivors and their pets in this one safehousing location. Stay tuned for updates on this critical project! MLK Day, January 18th Service Opportunity Join Doorways for the MLK Day of Service Join Doorways for a mini Listen and Learn at Washington-Liberty, followed by a Welcome Home Scavenger Hunt to support survivors in the Arlington Community! Open to individuals or groups, all ages welcome! Learn More and Sign Up In the News U.S. homelessness jumps to another record high, amid affordable housing shortage More than 770,000 people were living in shelters or outside in January, according to an annual federal report on homelessness by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The number is up 18% from last year's count — which had also jumped from the year before — and is the largest number since HUD started doing this report in 2007. Read More Why domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness for women At least 57% of all homeless women report that domestic violence was the immediate cause of their homelessness. Additionally, 38% of all victims of domestic violence become homeless at some point in their lives. Read More Home is the most dangerous place for women and girls, UN reports Globally, an intimate partner or family member was responsible for the deaths of approx. 51,100 women and girls during 2023, an increase from an estimated 48,800 victims in 2022. Read More Pet groomers doing good deeds: Building a community, not just a career Pet groomers can support their local domestic violence shelters, most of which are nonprofit organizations, by donating their services—either directly for survivors’ pets or in the form of gift certificates for nonprofit auctions and other fundraisers—by doing third-party fundraisers to encourage their customers and community to give, and by raising awareness of local resources by posting flyers in their spaces. Read More   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Doorways | P.O. Box 100185 | Arlington, VA 22210 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice