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1. Community Resources
Centralized Screening
(emergency shelter)
(480) 890-3039
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE
www.thehotline.org
Don’t wait to seek help.
For more information about valley
shelters, please call
Centralized Screening
from a safe phone and location at:
(480) 890-3039
New Life Center Outreach Program
New Life Center’s Outreach Program offers weekly
support groups in various communities in the
West Valley. Find a group near you and
get connected.
Avondale • Buckeye • Glendale
Goodyear • Tolleson
For times and exact locations, call New Life Center
Outreach Coordinator at:
(623) 932-4404
Is someone you love hurting you?
Domestic violence occurs among all
types of families regardless of income,
profession, religion, ethnicity,
educational level, or race.
No one deserves to be abused
About New Life Center
New Life Center offers a comprehensive 120-day program
that focuses on empowering women to live independent,
violence-free lives. While in shelter women and children
attend group advocacy and work with a personal family
advocate to develop goals for a new life.
A full-time Jobs Coordinator helps the women gain the
economic self-sufficiency needed to remain independent
through job training, assistance with job interview skills,
and resume building.
New Life Center is dedicated to the life-saving and
life-changing work of providing emergency shelter for
women and children fleeing domestic violence.
Our 104-bed facility serves approximately 1,000 residents
each year. Despite tough economic times New Life
Center continues to place its sole priority on providing a
safe haven for the thousands of women and children that
are escaping domestic violence.
“Saving lives, building futures...
empowering women and children
escaping domestic violence.”
Connect with New Life Center
New Life Center | P.O. Box 5005 | Goodyear, AZ 85338
623.932.4404 | 623.536.1147 fax | www.newlifectr.org
Fact
Support Groups

2. What is domestic violence?
Victims from all walks of life can experience domestic
violence, and abuse from people they know and love.
They don’t ask for it. Everyone has the right to be
treated with respect and to live free from fear. No one
has the right to abuse you to relieve their own frustra-
tions, or to control you. The responsibility for this be-
havior rests entirely with the abuser. It is not your fault.
Property damage, physical or sexual assault, threat of
assault or stalking by your partner or ex-partner are all
crimes. Other things your partner does to coerce, control
or dominate you could be signs of abuse, such as:
• Telling you what to wear or where to go.
• Criticizing or insulting you in public.
• Making it difficult or uncomfortable for you to see
your family or friends.
• Withholding money or not letting you earn or access
your own money.
• Forcing you into sexual behavior that is unwelcome,
painful or humiliating.
This can leave you feeling stressed, anxious or depressed.
You may feel like you cannot do anything right and it can
also affect your physical health.
Domestic violence must be taken seriously
Unless some type of intervention occurs, the violence
generally becomes more severe and more frequent.
One in every four women will experience domestic
violence in her lifetime. In Arizona, domestic violence
situations are the most frequent call to 911 for
assistance.
The truth about
domestic violence...
Myth
Domestic violence is usually a one time, isolated
occurrence.
Fact
Abuse is a pattern of coercion and control and
includes a repeated use of tactics including
intimidation, threats, economic deprivation,
isolation, physical abuse and emotional or
sexual abuse.
Myth
Domestic violence is caused by stress, substance
abuse or mental health issues.
Fact
Violence in the home is about power and control.
It is consciously chosen to control or dominate a
partner.
Myth
Domestic violence only occurs in poor, uneducated
and minority families.
Fact
Abuse occurs among all types of families regardless
of income, profession, religion, ethnicity,
educational level or race.
How children are affected
Many children who witness domestic violence live in
a state of fear, which can have serious long-term affects.
These children often feel responsible for the violence
and try to make things easier for their mothers by not
saying how they feel. Others act out, become depressed
or aggressive, and may have difficulty relating to
their peers.
Children need to know that they are not forgotten, and
reassured that feeling frightened, angry and confused is
quite normal in this situation. It is important to try and
talk to our children and explain that the violence is not
their fault.
While it can be difficult and frightening to take action
against domestic violence, you and your children will
feel safer, stronger and more in control when you do.
“Every 44 minutes
in Arizona, a child
witnesses an act of
domestic violence.”
a refuge from domestic violence
Don’t wait to seek help.
For more information, please call
Centralized Screening
from a safe phone and location at:
(480) 890-3039
Myth vs. Fact