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The RCCGC provides emergency shelter for 30 days for victims and families.
Cecily Henderson (left) has served as executive director of the Resource & Crisis Center of Galveston County since 2021.
PHOTOS COURTESY RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER OF GALVESTON COUNTY
Galveston County center serves victims of domestic violence, tra cking, sexual assault
The RCCGC does outreach presentations at churches and libraries to help prevent domestic violence.
also elded 15,658 hotline calls last year, she said. “People can call us 24 hours a day, and we will help them,” Henderson said. How to help Shelters received 50% less federal funding this past year, but the center will continue to show up to city council meetings and do outreach in Gal- veston County—especially during October, which is domestic violence awareness month. “It is an essential service to our county [we’ve provided] over the years,” she said. “If people can come out to our annual fundraiser and want to put a table together and sponsor it, it goes directly back to helping our victims in the shelter.”
The Resource & Crisis Center of Galveston County began as a program for women escaping domestic violence in 1979. Forty- ve years later, the organization provides emergency shelter and resources for all victims of domestic violence, human tra cking and sexual assault, Executive Director Cecily Henderson said. “A big part of our mission, besides the shelter and keeping people safe, is prevention,” she said. By the numbers In 2023, the 45-bed emergency shelter had residents stay 13,693 times, Henderson said. Advocates with the nonpro t conducted 104 outreach presentations in 2023. The organization
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