Financial Support
Celebrating 19 Years Serving Survivors
Thanks to community members like you, The Cocoon has been able to provide life-saving services to survivors and their children since 2005.
Your investment in our mission provides safety, healing, and justice for more than 900 survivors annually.
Your gift today will be put into immediate action by ensuring that programs and services remain available 24/7, 365 days a year and always at no cost to survivors, eliminating financial barriers for anyone who needs help.
Thank you for joining us in standing with survivors!
My Name is Gabby
My childhood was spent in constant fear. My home life was chaotic, volatile and full of coercion and manipulation at the hands of the man my mother married when I was 2. As far back as I can remember he called me by everything except my name. By the time I was 15 I was living on the streets. I saw that as a better alternative than living at home.
By the time I was 18, I had met Scott, another street kid. At first he seemed like my knight in shining armor. Then I found out we were going to have a baby. I was going to be a mother by the time I was 19. And he started calling me everything except my name.
Scott made it clear from the start that he wanted me to terminate the pregnancy. After trying to convince me for a month or so he finally thought he would take matters into his own hands and repeatedly punch me in the stomach.
Once he passed out, I crept out of the motel room we were staying in and called The Cocoon’s 24/7 crisis line. The advocate I spoke with arranged to have me picked up within an hour. After getting checked out at the hospital, she took me to file for a Civil Protection Order and then to their emergency safe shelter. I can’t ever remember feeling more cared for and safe in my entire life.
During my 54 days in shelter I was provided support day and night, worked to come up with short and long term safety plans for me and the baby, started proceedings to gain sole custody, explored options for more permanent housing, child care and employment options. I began attending a weekly support group and five years later still find that group helps ground me when I am feeling lost and lonely. After gaining employment I was able to transition out of shelter and into our apartment. Once I found a steady job, I went through The Cocoon’s Economic Empowerment Program and have learned how to manage my household finances so that I don’t have to be dependent on anyone else.
And, since reaching out to The Cocoon, everyone has called me by my name. My name is Gabby.
Program Support
The Cocoon exists to provide safety, healing, and justice for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, their children, and all others affected by abuse. We also provide educational outreach throughout the community. Learn more about our programs below and see how your donation can make a difference.
Safe Shelter Program
Safe housing options are essential for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. We provide emergency safe housing to more than 75 adults and children each year. Your support will help us continue to provide a safe haven.
- Monthly Program Cost: $6,500
prevention & Education
Breaking the cycle of domestic and sexual violence is critical to reducing victimization and trauma in our community. Your support will help us work with community members to create change and stop violence before it happens.
- Monthly Program Cost: $12,000
Crisis Support Services
Services for survivors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, at NO COST to the survivor. The Cocoon responds to more than 7,000 calls annually from more than 800 survivors who need our help. Your support ensures that survivors have access to services, support, and safety planning at their most critical time of need.
- Monthly Program Cost: $5,000
- One Week 24/7 On-Call Crisis Support: $525
Legal Access Program
Access to legal remedies allows survivors to achieve safety, stability, and justice. Your support will help The Cocoon provide court advocacy and linkages to attorneys for survivors needing to navigate criminal court cases, as well as, divorce, custody, and protection order hearings.
- Monthly Program Cost: $10,000
- One Hour Legal Representation: $75
Children's Programming
We house more than 20 children in our emergency shelter each year and support more than 800 families in the community. Programs include onsite trauma counseling, healing spaces, activities, and peer support. Your support will help us reduce the effects of trauma on children who’ve been exposed to domestic or sexual violence.
- Monthly Program Cost: $2,300
- One Hour Children's Counseling: $50
transportation
The Cocoon helps coordinate more than 1,500 requests for transportation to medical, counseling, legal, and child-related appointments each and every year. Your support will help ensure that survivors and their children have access to the methods of transportation need to ensure their long-term stability and success.
- Monthly Program Cost: $500
- One Week Of Transportation: $25
safe Pets Program
Domestic violence, child abuse, and animal abuse frequently occur simultaneously in a family. Your support will provide pet-friendly spaces, food, and other necessities so that survivors won’t have to choose between fleeing abuse and the safety of their pets.
- Monthly Program Cost: $100
economic Empowerment Program
Financial abuse is often the main reason domestic violence survivors stay with or return to an abusive partner. Your support will help us provide survivors with the tools needed to create financial stability, including budgeting, credit repair, employment, and matched savings opportunities.
- Monthly Program Cost: $1,700
