Hope Place

Hope Place in Huntsville, Alabama, provides services to victims of domestic violence and their children in a five county area in north Alabama. The program provides a 24-hour hotline and a residential shelter to the victims of domestic violence in Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, and Morgan counties. Hope Place provides victims’ advocates in each county area, and has counselors in some of the law enforcement and district attorneys’ offices in its service areas. Good contacts with the police departments in these areas, some of which have separate domestic violence units, have improved the ease with which battered individuals can receive assistance in the service area. Hope Place is also in the process of creating the state’s first domestic violence satellite shelter, which will be located in Marshall County.
Kathy Wells, the director of Hope Place, explains that she has developed a very good working relationship with the Huntsville Police Department, the largest city polic...