Apna Ghar

We are proud to support Apna Ghar, Inc. (Our Home), a U.S.-based 501c3 organization that provides holistic services and conducts outreach and advocacy across immigrant communities to end gender-based violence.

The organization’s greatest current need is to raise funds to support program and facility expansion including a recently established safe home and satellite location.

Since 1989, Apna Ghar became one of the first agencies in the United States to address the cultural and linguistic barriers that prevent immigrant victims of gender-based violence from reaching out for help. Apna Ghar recognizes that immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in the United States face unique challenges, including limited access to legal, social, protective, and support services. Apna Ghar’s multicultural and multilingual staff provides a full range of services to survivors as they begin their journeys of healing and empowerment.

For over 25 years, Apna Ghar has equipped women with the skills, tools, and resources to reclaim and rebuild their lives. Apna Ghar helps clients meet immediate safety needs and take steps toward long-term stability without the anxiety of navigating unfamiliar systems and connecting with multiple service providers on their own.

Apna Ghar recently established a new purpose-built, 30-bed safe home, doubling their existing capacity, and enabling them to expand services to additional demographic groups and geographic areas. They also opened a new satellite office to provide comprehensive services to even more people affected by gender-based violence.

Each year, Apna Ghar provides:

  • 24-Hour Hotline: Apna Ghar staff and volunteers provide callers with information about their programs and services and resources available for immediate and long-term safety.
  • Emergency Shelter: The emergency shelter provides survivors fleeing violence and trauma with a home-like, culturally sensitive, safe and secure environment where they can begin their journeys of healing and empowerment, and regain control of their lives.
  • Case Management: Apna Ghar’s case management services ensure long-term stability and self-sufficiency. Case management helps survivors identify personal goals and connect to community resources to meet healthcare, educational, employment, permanent housing, financial, and other critical needs.
  • Legal Advocacy: Apna Ghar advocates support survivors in obtaining legal representation through an in-house legal clinic and partnerships with legal aid agencies and pro-bono attorneys. Advocates help survivors access available legal remedies such as orders of protection, child support, custody and divorce, as well as immigration relief via protective legal statutes such as the Violence Against Women Act.
  • Counseling: Apna Ghar provides individual, family, and group counseling as well as art therapy. Counseling helps survivors process and heal from the trauma of abuse and helps them in their journeys towards stability and self-sufficiency. Apna Ghar also offers a prevention and intervention group at local schools for elementary-aged girls.
  • Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Center (SVSE): Apna Ghar’s supervised visitation and safe exchange (SVSE) program provides a safe place where children can interact with their non-custodial parent in the presence of a trained facilitator.

In 2017, Apna Ghar accomplished the following prominent milestones:

  • Served 620 women, children, and men through comprehensive programs
  • Connected 1,334 crisis calls to information and resources
  • Reached over 4,000 people through more than 298 outreach activities