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THE HOLIDAYS CAN BE TRYING FOR
SOME, ESPECIALLY PEOPLE DEALING
WITH LOSS,
ABUSE, OR OTHER DOMESTIC ISSUES.
TODAY IN SPANISH FORT, AREA
SUPPORT AGENCIES HELD AN
OUTREACH EVENT FOR VICTIMS OF
VIOLENCE.
FOX 10 NEWS REPORTER JOE
SALVATORE HAS THAT STORY.
< Reps from Penelope House,
Lighthouse set up tables at
Eastern Shore
Lanes. An unlikely place to
find support agencies doing
business, but they say letting
is crucial especially this time
of
year.
We're about helping families,
helping individuals get through
the holiday season where
they don't fall in to that
depressed mode during this time.
in January. They are a
girls,
who are 13 to 18 years old
having problems living at home.
months.
We feel like our girls will
leave us when they graduate from
women that can go and have
Lighthouse serves victims of
domestic violence and ***
assault in Baldwin and Escambia
Counties.
counseling.
if they're in immediate danger
and they need us at 2 O' clock
in the morning we're there and
if they need us at 2 O' clock in
the afternoon, we're there.
Counties, victims of domestic
from Penelope House. They
provide emergency shelter for
women and
Our goal is to provide safety
and to give victims a time to
heal physically, mentally, and
kind of
reassess their situation and see
what their options are, and make
they leave our shelter. Agency
reps say some victims blame
themselves for their own
predicament, and find it hard to
ask for help.
counselors work with victims to
self-worth. In Spanish Fort,
Joe Salvatore for Fox Ten News.
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