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Our program helps survivors cope with the emotional, physical, and financial issues of leaving an abuser.
Turning Point is Roanoke’s only secure and accredited center for intimate partner and family Violence. Our program offers safety from immediate danger and helps adults and children of Intimate Partner and Family Violence cope with the emotional, physical, and financial issues of leaving an abuser. Survivors who seek shelter at the Turning Point find a safe and home-like environment, complete with wholesome meals. Working with a case manager, survivors will learn about legal options and how to stay safe. Through counseling, survivors learn about the cycle of domestic violence and how it affects them and their children. Parenting classes are available on-site to help gain coping skills and learn resources available for children, including our Children’s Service Coordinator.
One in three women and one in seven men will endure domestic violence at some point. Over 700 individuals call the free Turning Point confidential crisis hotline annually, and more than 225 adults and children stay in our secure 60-bed center, with an average stay of 30-45 days.
The Salvation Army believes that everyone has the right to live free of violence. You do not have control over your partner’s behavior; however, you have a choice about how you respond to it.
If you or your children are in imminent danger, call 911 now!
To learn more about making a safety plan, call our free, confidential, 24/7 hotline.
Please get in touch with us at The Salvation Army Roanoke Corps to learn more about how you, your corporation, organization, or group can help survivors of abuse start a new life at the Turning Point.
Creating your safety plan is the first step toward leaving an abuser or protecting yourself if you plan to stay.
Consider these important steps when establishing a plan:
Our program helps survivors cope with the emotional, physical, and financial issues of leaving an abuser. Survivors and children who seek shelter at Salvation Army’s Turning Point find a safe and home-like environment, complete with wholesome meals. A case manager and a legal advocate will work with you to reach your goals. We offer support groups and education on how domestic violence affects you and your children.
Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence is a pattern of abusive behaviors one person uses to control or influence another. It does not discriminate against socioeconomic status, race, gender identity, or sexuality. Examples of domestic violence include coercion, threats, intimidation, insults, and physical and sexual abuse.
Like survivors of domestic violence, survivors of human trafficking may experience the same pattern of abusive behaviors. It is a form of modern-day slavery, exploiting an individual for labor or commercial sex. We at Turning Point believe that ALL people have the right to live free of violence. We provide free, confidential, temporary emergency shelter and services in a safe, caring environment where positive change, dignity, and independence are encouraged.
For Erika, the abuse started in April of 2017 and lasted until she escaped her abuser on October 14, 2021. Seven months pregnant, Erika; beaten, bruised, and exhausted, was found walking down a Botetourt two lane road at 4 AM, by an elderly couple who drove her to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where she was referred to an OB/GYN and put in contact with Turning Point, The Salvation Army of Roanoke’s domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking shelter for an immediate interview with a case manager. “I remember it was with Adam actually. Well that poor man got an earful that day,” recalls Erika when looking back on her almost 10 months at Turning Point.
On December 14, 2021, Erika welcomed her son Ezra into the world. “Ezra has a very rare genetic condition called Moebius Syndrome. It has nothing to do with the abuse or any of that. It’s just the way God made him.”
Erika and Ezra transitioned from Turning Point into our Pathway of Hope program and have recently been approved for housing. They are both healthy, happy, and thriving survivors.
