If home doesn’t feel safe, trained advocates are ready to listen and help you think through your next step — free, confidential, and available day and night. You don’t need the perfect words, and you don’t have to be ready to leave, to deserve support.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Faith. Building Safer Communities.
If you or your children are in danger right now, call emergency services.
Call 911If it isn’t safe to speak out loud, the call, text, and chat options below are quieter ways to reach an advocate.
One call, text, or chat connects you with a trained advocate — wherever you live.
Nationwide · 24/7
Confidential support from trained advocates, including safety planning and connections to local programs near you. English, Spanish, and interpreters in many more languages.
Free and confidential. You can reach out even if you’re unsure whether what you’re experiencing “counts” as abuse — advocates can help you sort that out, too.
From anywhere in Florida, reach your nearest certified domestic violence center through one number.
If you are in emotional distress or having thoughts of harming yourself, counselors are available around the clock.
These are our area’s state-certified domestic violence centers. Their shelters are at confidential locations, and every service below is free.
Tampa · Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County’s certified domestic violence center, serving survivors since 1977 — emergency shelter, crisis counseling, safety planning, and legal advocacy for injunctions.
24-hour crisis line, 365 days a year. TTY: (813) 248-1050.
Pasco County
Pasco County’s domestic and sexual violence center — confidential emergency shelter, free counseling, legal advocacy, and support groups, with outreach offices on both the east and west sides of the county.
24/7 hotline. All services are free and confidential, for survivors of any background or belief.
Somewhere else? The National Hotline can connect you with the certified center nearest you, anywhere in the country.
Many people hesitate because they don’t know how to begin, or worry they’ll be told what to do. Here is what actually happens when you reach out:
Grace & Courage Co is a Christian platform, and we believe prayer matters. But prayer is never a replacement for a trained advocate, a safety plan, or a counselor — and reaching out for professional help is not a failure of faith.
Support from every organization on this page is offered whatever you believe, including if you don’t share the Christian faith. You will never be asked to earn help by accepting ours.
“She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: ‘You are the God who sees me.’”GENESIS 16:13 — HAGAR, NAMING GOD EL ROI
Grace & Courage Co — Faith After Abuse — is a Christian educational and advocacy platform, and a ministry of The Healing Table Collective: a place to think carefully about Scripture, faith, and safety, together. We explore the women of the Bible, how Scripture has been interpreted, and how churches can become safer communities.
This page is maintained by Doris, a survivor studying theology and building The Healing Table Collective — a ministry in the making, devoted to survivor support, education, advocacy, and connections to qualified professionals.
Grace & Courage Co is an educational ministry, not a counseling service: Doris is not a licensed therapist, counselor, or certified advocate. For support, please reach out to the trained advocates listed above — they are the right first call, day or night.
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