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Justice, hope, and healing for child abuse victims and their families

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What Is SafeSpace?
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SafeSpace Children’s Advocacy Center of the Gorge is a single point of contact for child abuse victims in the Columbia River Gorge to get the help they need. 

Through coordinated support services that reduce further trauma and offer justice and hope, children and their families can begin their healing process.

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               SafeSpace is the 
         Gorge’s only nonprofit
 that coordinates the efforts of child protection staff, law enforcement professionals, family advocates, medical experts, and mental health clinicians under one roof.

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                Every year, 1 in 7 children will experience abuse and the United States has the highest rate of child abuse and neglect of any industrialized nation in the world. Learn about the signs of abuse and what you
can do to help.

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              Your involvement and donations play a huge part in our efforts to advocate for child abuse victims in the Gorge and help them find the justice, hope, and healing they need to become survivors.

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HOW A CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER WORKS
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Support SafeSpace and Local Artists

Hood River’s newest author is 96-year-old Sigrid Scully, who published a children’s poem book titled “If I Could.” In collaboration with her friend Judy Ruderman-Shupack, who illustrated the book, they published the picture book through Cave Moon Press. (Read more in the Columbia Gorge News...)

IN 2022
SafeSpace saw 185 kids

and received
210 calls
for advice and referrals
Average cost of a case going to trial
$10,000 a day

Average cost of case going through SafeSpace 
$2,493
SINCE 2009
SafeSpace will have seen
more than 

1,000 kids
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