Citation

Danis FS, Keisel-Caballero K, Johnson CH. Violence Against Women 2019; 25(7): 882-899.

Affiliation

TechSoup, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801218805585

PMID

30355072

Abstract

When your residential program is full, finding emergency shelter for human trafficking and domestic violence survivors can be challenging. Advocates often spend hours calling one agency after another to locate an appropriate placement. The Safe Shelter Collaborative is an innovative technological approach to locating emergency shelter. By sending out a blast alert to certified users within a geographic network, agencies provide faster access for a greater number and diversity of survivors. This article reports on an evaluation of the Safe Shelter Collaborative and the ways it has transformed the process of finding emergency shelter.

Language: en

Keywords

domestic violence shelters; emergency housing; human trafficking; technology innovation