The need for safehousing is at an all-time high in Arlington. Doorways sheltered 150 survivors in our emergency safehousing in fiscal year 2025 — more than ever before, and more than double the number we sheltered just five years ago.
Many of the 70 adults and 80 children we sheltered were facing high risk of harm, and even death. Doorways is Arlington’s only provider of safehousing — emergency shelter for survivors and their families who are in imminent danger due to abuse — and we do not turn away any survivor who accesses our shelter. We do not have a waitlist, even when we are already at capacity, because we know that survivors cannot wait.
Despite survivors’ urgent need for shelter being at an all-time high, federal support for victim services continues to decrease or disappear altogether.
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