Bay Area Turning Point is a non-profit that provides immediate crisis intervention and short to long-term wrap around recovery services for individuals impacted directly or indirectly by domestic violence and/or sexual assault. BATP provides services to everyone, including women, children, men, LGBTQ+ community, veterans, individuals with disabilities and other special populations.
BATP serves Harris County, Chambers County, Northern Galveston County, Eastern Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, and Montgomery County
BATP provides a myriad of services to include:
= A 24 hour crisis hotline and 24 hour advocates on-call who will meet victims at hospitals, police stations, schools, and doctor’s offices at any time. They can also accompany sexual assault victims to our facility to receive an onsite sexual assault exam to avoid waiting at the ER
= Shelter that includes a full kitchen, 3 meals a day, 3 snacks a day, onsite childcare, case management and classes to become self-reliant and strengthen the family unit
= Counseling that includes individual and family counseling, adult and child counseling, and support groups
= Housing that provides short to medium term rental assistance for those that qualify
= Victim advocacy that provides crisis intervention, connects survivors with relevant resources, accompanies survivors to make police reports, interviews, and court proceedings. The advocates also help with filing protective orders. Advocates are the survivor’s support system throughout their case and the go-between person to help them with additional services
= Hotel Program which is a short term option when someone is actively fleeing a dangerous situation. The survivor can be brought in to the hotel while a case manager tries to get them into our shelter or finds another safe place for them to go
= Outreach, Education, and Prevention department attends events to bring awareness to the agency, provides educational sessions to any organizations and businesses to give an in-depth view into issues regarding domestic violence and/or sexual assault to include, warning signs, risk factors, protective factors, child abuse, elderly abuse, trauma-informed practices, survivor-centered practices, healthy relationship behaviors, primary prevention (root causes of violence), policies, safety planning, etc. Primary Prevention is provided to youth to change their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors to a healthy mindset that not only attempts to eliminate violent tendencies before they become an issue, but to challenge risk factors to violence when they see it in a safe manner
We do receive city and state grants but are largely run off of private donations. These donations pay for survivor stays at the shelter, rooms at the hotels, staff salaries to provide these services, keep the lights
on, purchase additional spaces to expand services, purchase supplies and equipment necessary to keep survivors safe and comfortable, etc
We have been in the Greater Bay Area for 31 years and look forward to continuing to serve the community
