Programs
Support services that provide safety, advocacy, and practical support for survivors and their families.
How Response Supports Survivors
Response offers a continuum of trauma-informed programs that meet survivors where they are during moments of crisis and throughout the journey toward safety, stability, and independence. Our services are confidential, bilingual and culturally inclusive, and available to individuals and families affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, sexual harassment, and human trafficking in the upper Roaring Fork Valley.
Victim Advocacy
Response provides culturally inclusive, trauma-informed advocacy for victims, their families, and non-abusive significant others. Our advocates walk alongside survivors to help them understand their options, navigate complex systems, and make informed decisions about their safety and future.
Services include:
Services include:
Crisis intervention
Identifying options
Resources
Information, resources, and referrals to other agencies
Safety planning
Protection Orders
Assistance with temporary protection orders
Trafficking Support
Human trafficking support services
Sexual Harassment Support
Justice Support
Civil and criminal justice support including navigating the judicial and victim’s compensation systems
Medical Support
Accompaniment for a victim to the doctor or hospital
24-HOUR HOTLINE
(970) 925-SAFE (7233)
Confidential, immediate support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Crisis assistance: 970.925.SAFE (7233)
• Immediate response for victims any day of the week, at any hour.
• Crisis assistance: 970.925.SAFE (7233)
• Immediate response for victims any day of the week, at any hour.
SUPPORT GROUPS
Response periodically offers facilitated support groups for adult survivors of domestic and sexual assault. Offered in both English and Spanish, these groups provide a safe, supportive space for survivors to connect with others, share experiences, and build tools for healing and resilience.
Community Outreach
Response works collaboratively throughout the upper Roaring Fork Valley with schools, businesses, community associations, judicial partners, law enforcement, medical providers, and faith-based organizations to end domestic and sexual abuse. We focus on prevention, education, and shifting community norms by promoting bystander intervention, accountability, and collective intolerance of abuse.
We provide prevention education programming in middle schools from Basalt to Aspen and offer community presentations on topics including:
• Response Programs and Services
• Healthy Relationships
• Domestic Violence 101
• Sexual Harassment and Abuse
• Bystander Intervention
• Teen Dating Violence
We provide prevention education programming in middle schools from Basalt to Aspen and offer community presentations on topics including:
• Response Programs and Services
• Healthy Relationships
• Domestic Violence 101
• Sexual Harassment and Abuse
• Bystander Intervention
• Teen Dating Violence
Housing
Access to safe, stable housing is one of the most significant barriers survivors face. In the Roaring Fork Valley, where housing is scarce and expensive, the fear of losing a home, or being unable to afford one independently, can make leaving an abusive relationship difficult.
Response helps survivors through a range of housing support, including:
Response helps survivors through a range of housing support, including:
- Short-term emergency hotel stays when appropriate
- Confidential emergency and transitional shelter at the Center for Hope and Healing
- Rental and other financial assistance to help survivors secure and maintain housing.
- Individualized housing advocacy and case management.
- Case management and direct financial assistance to help survivors secure and maintain housing
Building Long Term Stability
Finding safe housing is only part of the challenge. Survivors may also be navigating damaged credit, disrupted rental histories, employment instability, and other financial barriers related to abuse. Response works alongside survivors to address these challenges and build greater stability over time.
Survivors receiving housing assistance continue to have access to advocacy, counseling, and referrals to community resources. Our Shelter Manager can also provide support with budgeting, employment searches, and connections to additional financial resources.
In 2025, 90 survivors and 57 children received housing support through one or more of Response’s housing programs.
“This all is such a life changer for me. I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate your help and how it has made this whole life-changing experience an uplift in my life versus the breakdown it could have been.”
— Anonymous survivor, Housing for Survivors Program participant
Safe, affordable housing can provide the foundation survivors need to build lives free from abuse. With continued community support, Response will continue helping survivors find and maintain a safe place to call home.
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