INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT
HELP IS AVAILABLE:
FOR SUPPORT, ADVOCACY, REFERRALS
OR emergency SHELTER, CALL OUR
24 HOUR HOTLINE (860) 364-1900
Crisis Hotline – 24 hours a day / 7 days a week / 365 days a year, answered by certified domestic violence counselors. Collect calls are accepted and all calls are confidential. Support, safety planning, information and referrals are available.
Emergency Shelter – Confidential shelter and safety planning. Available until you can return to your own home safely, relocate to another safe housing option, or transition into a longer-term shelter for planning and support.
Individual Support Counseling – Walk-in or by appointment, Monday through Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Free and confidential. Safety planning, domestic violence education, and resource referral for adults, teens and children, or concerned family and friends. Advocates available to safety plan and refer re: housing, transportation, financial needs, child care, legal issues, medical needs, employment, mental health or substance recovery concerns.
Criminal and Civil Legal Advocacy – Support in navigating the court process in the Torrington GA-18 court. Monday through Friday 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. Free and confidential. Family Violence Victim Advocate available on-site in court support center and at main Project SAGE office to provide advocacy, safety planning, and resource referral for all domestic violence criminal victims or those victims seeking civil court action.
Support Groups – Weekly groups for those who are currently with or who have left an abusive partner – contact office for schedule. Free and confidential. Project SAGE works with clients regardless of whether they choose to stay in a relationship or choose to leave.
Parenting Support Groups - Support with parenting challenges that arise when co-parenting with a violent partner or ex-partner. Learn how to increase both your own and your children’s skills for healthy relationship connections.
Calling All Cars Program — Would you like to receive a reliable used car? Please complete the application below and email it to info@Project-SAGE.org, or send it to Project SAGE: PO Box 717, Lakeville, CT 06039. Please call (860) 364-1900 if you have any questions. APPLICATION
“Trauma and I had a relationship long before I knew how to define trauma or relationship. We go back like four flats on a Cadillac… I often thought that the things that had happened to me were in some way my fault. And if only I had been better, if only I had been more understanding or more compassionate, if only I had loved harder…things would have turned out differently. I internalized everything for so long, always placing the blame on me, not where it truly belonged. I often found myself arguing with myself that I was not a victim. Yet I knew that I was not a perpetrator. I knew that when I said no, he was to stop. I knew that when I called the police I needed help. As I heard the air come out of my tires that fateful day I didn’t want that air to come out of me also.”