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DESCRIPTION: Program that works on behalf of individuals and/or groups to make sure that they receive the benefits and services for which they are eligible MORE INFORMATION Provides services to women, children and men including: * Twenty-hour on-call advocacy follow-up to all arrests * Safety planning and informs victims of their rights * Assistance in drafting Orders for Protection and Harassment Orders * Support advocacy for all court hearings * Transportation to hearing * Assistance in gathering and documenting evidence in criminal and civil cases (photos of injuries) * A communication network linking women with probation officers, prosecuting attorneys and law enforcement Through the Legal Advocacy Program, Safe Haven Shelter has worked to move beyond the concept of only providing emergency safe housing and advocacy, to an approach that challenges each of the community's institutions to both protect victims of battering and to change the cultural facilitators of battering.

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