Through 2011, the Women’s Bureau provided services to more than 350,000 people in northeastern Indiana, and the number of women and children who need our services continues to grow.
Transitions
Transitions is a gender-sensitive residential treatment program for pregnant women and/or women with children through age 5, which rebuilds families by helping women maintain a life of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Transitions recognizes that addiction is a multi-faceted issue for women and recovery is a long-term process. As such, the program focuses on helping women build and strengthen support systems and healthy relationships in treatment that can continue through their recovery.
Transitions helps women overcome the key barriers to successful recovery by addressing parenting and family bonding issues, trauma, self-sufficiency, education, and job skills as well as their addiction. The program also assists clients in linking to permanent supportive housing options in the community.
REACT
Respond, Empower, Advocate, Collaborate, Treat
All REACT programs strive to relieve the trauma of sexual assault through crisis intervention and counseling, and to prevent sexual assault through education and skill-building.
REACT services include:
- Rape Crisis Hotline - call 260-426-7273 or 1-888-311-7273, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- FREE Counseling for survivors and secondary survivors of
- Rape
- Sexual Assault
- Incest
- Molestation
- Domestic Violence
REACT programs:
- Assault Education for Teens (AET) - A three-hour class teaches the skills to avoid, recognize, and safely react to unhealthy or dangerous situations. Middle school, high school, and college students.
- SAFE - a two-hour self-defense class for girls (teens) and adult women.
- Project CARE (Collaborate, Advocate, Respect, and Empower) - A special program for persons with mental illness or physical or developmental disabilities, created in response to data that the rate of rape or sexual assault on persons with a disability was more than twice that of non-disabled people, and that 32% of abusers are acquaintances or family and 44% are caregivers or service providers. Project CARE provides services for teens beginning at 15 years of age and adults, and we are working on a future program for children.
- Clinical Counseling Services
- Rural advocacy, outreach, and clinical counseling
Dress for Success Fort Wayne is a new affiliate of the international not-for-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Dress for Success Fort Wayne is the only Dress for Success affiliate in northeast Indiana and is a division of the Women’s Bureau, Inc. Not only will Dress For Success Fort Wayne help accomplish Women’s Bureau’s mission of advocating, educating, and empowering women, clients of the Women’s Bureau’s Transitions program will also have the opportunity to use the Dress For Success Fort Wayne services.
The Dress for Success Fort Wayne boutique is open for suiting by appointment only. Merchandise donations can be made every Monday at the boutique location from 10:00am-4:00pm. Merchandise donations can also be dropped off at Crazy Pinz at any time during operating hours.
