December 13, 2007
Innovative Shelter Offers Women Many Services Under One Roof
The staff and board members of Interact of Wake County, in Raleigh, N.C., an 18-bed shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, were tired of turning away so many women who needed the charity's help.
The charity couldn't keep up as the county's population grew by more than 60 percent over the two decades since it opened. For every woman whom Interact of Wake County was able to serve in 2006, for example, it had to send another to a hotel or social-service program in
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