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- Marquette Women's Center
- Over the last thirty-six years, the Women’s Center has provided safe emergency shelter, counseling, and support services to over 20,000 individuals. The need for services has been increasing at alarming rates. The Harbor House domestic violence shelter is the only emergency shelter available to women and children fleeing an abusive home in Marquette and Alger counties. Domestic violence doesn’t solely impact women. Even if children aren’t abused themselves, fifty percent of boys exposed to domestic violence will become batterers and fifty percent of girls witnessing domestic violence will become victims. While we have recently purchased and renovated a larger shelter, we are still often times at capacity. In fact, from fiscal year 2004/2005 to fiscal year 2007/2008 shelter nights in our community have risen steadily each year for a total of 27% over the four-year period. The need is real, and the urgency extreme. Access to safety when a woman and her children are in danger is life saving.