Laura Baxter, Executive Director of Project Woman accepts a $1,000 Foundation Donation from Exchange Club of Springfield Foundation President Larry F. Sewell at the October 22, 2019 Breakfast Meeting of the Exchange Club of Springfield in the Student Center of Wittenberg University. Laura related that there has been a 53% increase this year in Requests for Services. October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Project Woman is dedicated to ending domestic violence and sexual assault by providing services and programs to protect, educate, and empower. Community volunteers founded the agency in 1974 as a 1-room rape crisis center.
Today, as a non-profit 501c3, they operate a full range of rape crisis and domestic violence services. These include an emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault and their children, a 24-hour crisis line, individual counseling, support groups, case management, victim advocacy, community education and prevention, children’s programming, 24-hour hospital advocacy and a greatly-needed needed transitional housing program.