Category: The Abused
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Safelight, Inc.
Safelight has been serving survivors of violence, abuse, and exploitation in Western North Carolina since 1984, providing a comprehensive continuum of care that takes individuals from crisis to stability. What distinguishes Safelight is its whole-person, trauma-informed approach — offering onsite access to mental health, medical, legal, housing, and employment services all in one place, and…
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Youth Villages, INC
Youth Villages is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children and families live successfully. Serving young people ages 4–21, Youth Villages provides evidence-based, community-centered programs for youth facing behavioral and mental health challenges, those who have experienced abuse or neglect, and those transitioning out of foster care. Their approach strengthens entire family systems rather than…
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Crossnore Communities for Children
Crossnore Communities for Children has championed the well-being of children and families for more than 100 years, providing holistic, trauma-informed services for those at risk of entering the child welfare system, those already involved, and those transitioning out of care. Operating locally through a Hendersonville office, Crossnore serves Transylvania County through family preservation, foster care,…
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Issac Homes Youth Center
Lake Toxaway Charities has supported Issac Homes Youth Center since its inception in May 2022 with grant funding and volunteers. Our hearts were warmed to read this recent inspiring newsletter from the center; we hope you enjoy it too. Click here to open the newsletter.
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The Children’s Center of Transylvania County
The Children’s Center of Transylvania County works to protect children, strengthen families, and build a more resilient community through frontline prevention services for child abuse, neglect, family violence, and trauma. The need in Transylvania County is significant: the county’s child maltreatment report rate of 65.8 per 10,000 children is well above the statewide rate of…
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Mediation Center
The mission of the Mediation Center is to create opportunity from conflict. The Mediation Center provides conflict resolution services to help people move through difficult and stressful times and resolve conflict without violence and abuse. For adults, they provide community and family mediation services to resolve disputes between neighbors, family members, co-workers, and others. Lake…
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Pisgah Legal Services
Pisgah Legal Services (PLS) has provided free civil legal aid to low-income residents of Western North Carolina since 1978, serving 18 counties and the Qualla Boundary through a team of 42 staff attorneys and more than 250 pro bono lawyers. In 2025, PLS helped more than 28,000 people across the region — including 750 Transylvania…
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SAFE
SAFE, Inc. is Transylvania County’s dedicated domestic and sexual violence organization, providing shelter, counseling, case management, court advocacy, and prevention services to survivors and their families. Operating from Stacey’s House — the county’s domestic violence shelter since 2007 — SAFE offers a full continuum of support designed not only to meet immediate needs in a…