Although some battered women are not in need of residential care, they still need support and assistance. NEWHOUSE provides this segment of the population with a 24-hour crisis hotline, individual counseling, group counseling, and battered women's support groups.

Doing More Than Ever to Win the
Fight Against Domestic Violence
Services offered by NEWHOUSE continue to expand as the awareness of how seriously domestic violence affects our community and country increases. Today these services include:

KC PRYDE
Focused services for children ages 3 to 8 who have been exposed to both substance abuse and domestic violence in their lives. Services will promote resiliency and provide prevention/intervention services.

Outreach Case Management
Provides emotional support, social service referrals, employment referrals and ongoing treatment to residents after exiting shelter.

Transitional Housing
NEWHOUSE offeres safe, affordable housing for exiting shelter residents as they create a new life for themselves and their families.

Bridge Project
Hospital-based advocacy at Truman Medical Center-West helps bridge the gap in services to battered women by providing emergency room patients with resources for assistance in domestic violence.

Neighborhood Ecumenical Witness and Service (N.E.W.S.)
began in 1971 as a cooperative effort by three area churches to provide a variety of community services to the northeast area of Kansas City. In 1979, NEWHOUSE became Kansas City's first shelter to provide residential srevices to battered women and their children. NEWHOUSE is a private, not-for-profit corporation chartered in the state of Missouri as exempt from Federal Income Tax under Section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Service Cod. NEWHOUSE is a United Way agency that receies funding from a variety of community sources, including foundations, corporations, individuals, churches, civic groups and the government.