I spent three months in a domestic violence shelter last year, and it saved my life. But I only got there after waiting for a month, making call after call to a hotline and being told to wait. It wore me down, mentally and emotionally. This is still what hundreds of survivors of violence like myself experience in New York State, every day, looking for a safe place to stay — but it doesn’t have to be like this.
Read more from Safe Horizon client Sonny in the New York Daily News.