If all the women victimized by domestic violence in a given year joined hands, the line would stretch from New York to beyond Los Angeles.

Women's Shelter Inc. statistics for 2005.

• Sheltered 443 women and 320 children.

• Provided community advocacy and criminal justice intervention to 1,400 women in Dodge, Olmsted and Wabasha Counties. 

• Helped 1,150 battered women who called our crisis line. 

• Provided legal advocacy to 2,259 battered women. 

• Our Intervention Advocate opened 484 new domestic assault cases and provided advocacy and support to 1,200 victims of domestic assault. 

• Thirty-seven battered women received assistance specific to immigration. 

• Twenty-four individuals lived in Women's Shelter Inc.'s Transition House. 

• Twenty-five children attended Women's Shelter Inc.'s   Children's House School.

• One hundred sixty-one children participated in general educational activities in our Children's Program.