PROJECT SAFE

Project Safe is a 501c3 nonprofit organization working to end domestic violence through crisis intervention, ongoing supportive services, systems change advocacy, and prevention and education. Project Safe's primary service area is Madison County, Oconee County, Clarke County, and Oglethorpe County, but provides services to people from all over Georgia... In the late 70s and early 80s, Project Safe began as a volunteer enterprise. Volunteers set up a hotline in their homes via a landline and some volunteers offered their personal homes up as shelter. These volunteers began working with a group of UGA law students and another community organization. Eventually, these three organizations combined to form Project Safe in the early 80s and the first form of emergency shelter for Project Safe was out of the basement of the Salvation Army. In the mid to late 80s, Project Safe was able to lease its own building and open its own shelter. In 1991, Project Safe incorporated as a nonprofit. Any..

Also known as: Project Safe, Inc.

Primary location: Athens United States