A woman's place is a community-based social change organization committed to the empowerment of women and to ending intimate and domestic violence for all.

The safe options project of a woman's place (awp) serves victims of domestic violence and their children by providing the opportunity to make informed decisions that enables them to live lives free of domestic violence. Group and individual counseling, 24-hour hotline, shelter, legal advocacy and assistance, and first response services are available through the project. During fy 2016-2017, awp sheltered 52 women and 61 children for a total of 5,894 bed nights. Awp also provided 12,011 hours of counseling to victims and their children. Legal advocacy and first response teams assisted 1030 legal clients including providing 2560 court accompaniments for protection from abuse hearings and criminal trials. They also trained partner agencies in the areas of family law and crisis response to domestic violence. the prevention project of a woman's place (awp) builds the community's ability to break the cycle of violence by helping individuals, families, organizations, and groups understand the issue of domestic violence and how they can be part of the solution. Through community awareness events, workshops, trainings, coalition work, and other programming, the prevention project strengthens community knowledge and begins to replace attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that allow violence to continue with ones that promote safety, justice, and equality instead. During fy 2016-2017, awp's school-based programs reached 5,670 students with in school programs at 11 of the 13 bucks county school districts. 169 community programs were presented to 758 adult community members. The medical advocacy program provided 44 health training sessions to medical professional at two local hospitals. the empowerment project continued in 2016-2017 to strengthen individuals and communities so that they may flourish. The program focuses on financial self-sufficiency. In 2016-2017 women taking charge was revised and a new curriculum was developed, redefining, independence, safety and empowerment. The new program offers nine all day sessions focusing on self - sufficiency, goal planning, employment readiness, and community engagement. The inaugural class graduated 10 program participants with perfect attendance.