News & Events

Many of the victims who need our services are parents of young children. Accessing triage, counseling and legal services often means finding childcare.

In response to this need, WEAVE secured funding through the Sacramento Children’s Trust Fund to establish a playcare program at its Midtown Counseling Center. The program will begin offering supervised play opportunities for toddlers and young children in the coming weeks and we need your help to welcome the children who will benefit.

WEAVE is seeking donations of new items to complete the Playcare room.

As 2013 begins, domestic violence victims will have yet another option in their efforts to end the violence in their lives thanks to the generosity of our community and the vision of WEAVE’s leadership.

In 2009, WEAVE opened a new Safehouse designed to respond to the many barriers victims faced. The Safehouse features 18 family suites – six each in three wings. The pods feature shared kitchens and bathrooms. The design offers families the privacy needed with the benefits of other supportive families nearby.

WEAVE and our community partners need your help to combat human trafficking. As a service provider, you may come in contact with victims of human trafficking.

WEAVE would like to share more information about human trafficking through a presentation for your staff/volunteers. The one-hour presentation will provide participants with helpful information, practical tools, and useful printed materials which enable them to effectively respond if they encounter a victim of trafficking. The training is available at no cost.

A young sexual assault victim is being held in juvenile hall to ensure her appearance at the rapist's hearing. WEAVE has heard from many dismayed and outraged members of our community and we share your concerns about the rights of the victim in this situation and fears that it will discourage other victims from coming forward in the future.

Rest assured that WEAVE has shared these concerns with the District Attorney's Office and is in communication about the matter.

Our mission and purpose has always been and continues to be serving as a voice for needs of the victim.

WEAVE participated in a Centers for Disease Control and Research funded evaluation of the effectiveness of the Coaching Boys Into Men program under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Miller. The promising results of the program, validated through this research, were recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The results have received widespread media attention over the past week including the following articles.