Crisis Centre finally open

The Crisis Centre, which offers services to abused women and their children is now open.{{more}}

Since opening last year, the Crisis Centre has offered therapy to four adults, two children, and one family.

This information was given by Frederick Stephenson, Minister of National Mobilization, during his contribution to the just concluded Budget debate.

The centre, set up to assist battered and abused women, as well as children who are victims of related acts of violence, accommodates these victims for up to three months, while they receive counselling and other forms of therapy.

Stephenson said that the centre opened its doors last year, following a study tour of a similar facility in St Lucia, and the established protocols were conducted by a women’s shelter manager from St Lucia.

The Crisis Centre has been long in coming. In June 2009, a memorandum of understanding was signed by the Social Investment Fund and the National Council of Women for the establishment of the Crisis Centre. The estimated date of completion for the second phase of the project, at that time, was given as 2010.