Agency Opens New Housing, Jobs Program for Women
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After 20 years of planning, hoping and working, Haven Hills, an agency serving victims of domestic violence in the San Fernando Valley, officially opened the doors Monday to its new transitional housing and employment program for battered women and their children.
Haven Two in Canoga Park, which offers apartments and job counseling was once an earthquake-damaged apartment building.
And like the building, the women who live here were once battered and torn, but are hoping to make a new start in life.
“We’re here to help women create a self-sufficiency plan,” said Betty Fisher, executive director of Haven Hills.
One mother who had moved into the building only three days before with her three children said she was close to moving back in with her abusive husband after she had spent 45 days in another shelter because she thought she had no other options.
“If I didn’t have a place to go, I probably would have gone back home, or lived in a car,” she said.
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