One SAFE Place Shasta

Our offices will be closed on Friday, June 19, in honor of Juneteenth.

We take this time to pause and reflect together as a team. Juneteenth is a day to remember the journey toward freedom and to honor the strength and resilience of those who came before us.
At One SAFE Place, our work is rooted in the belief that safety, dignity, and freedom belong to everyone. We are grateful for the opportunity to stand with our community in the ongoing work toward equity, healing, and hope for all.

Our crisis hotline remains open 24/7. If you or someone you know needs support, please call us anytime at 244-SAFE.

We will resume normal business hours on Monday, June 23.

You want to help but you do not want to make it worse. Here is what actually helps.

Listen without an agenda. Your job is not to convince them to leave. It is to be someone they can tell the truth to.

Believe them. Do not question their account. The fact that they are telling you is already an act of courage.

Do not pressure them to leave. Telling someone to just leave can backfire and can increase danger.

Safety planning is complex. Respect their timeline.

Stay connected. Abusers often work to isolate. Showing up, even casually, is one of the most protective things you can do.

You do not have to have the answers. You just have to show up.

If you need guidance, we can help with that too.
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She gave the account password to her son to help with bills. Now she does not know how much money she has, and she is afraid to ask.

Today is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day.

Elder abuse can look like financial decisions made without your knowledge or input, being isolated from friends and family over time, emotional intimidation, being made to feel like a burden, or being told what you can and cannot do with your own life.

It is not just strangers. It is often people who are trusted.

If something feels wrong, it is worth talking to someone. Support is available at any age.
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Dancing with the Shasta Stars: Broadway Edition is back on October 17th. Our stars have been announced, the community is already talking, and sponsorship packages are now available.

Sponsoring DWTSS puts your name in front of Shasta County's most engaged audience at one of the year's most talked-about events. And it directly supports survivors and families served by One SAFE Place.

Reach out to learn more or visit ospshasta.org.

He said he just wanted to know you were safe. But now you clear your history before you hand him your phone. That shift matters.
Digital abuse often does not start as control. It starts as concern. Here is what it can look like over time.

Monitoring that becomes a pattern: checking your location constantly, needing to know where you are before you go anywhere, expecting constant contact. The difference is not whether it happens. It is whether you feel free to say no.

Demanding passwords or access to email, social media, or banking. In a healthy relationship, privacy is respected. Access is offered, not demanded.

Controlling what you post or who you talk to. Getting angry about who you follow or message.

Threatening to share private photos, messages, or personal information as leverage. This is abuse. It is also illegal.

If any of this feels familiar, you are not alone and you do not have to figure it out by yourself.
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A safety plan is not a script. It is a set of decisions you make in advance so you do not have to make them under pressure.

A safety plan can include where you could go and who you could call, documents to have accessible like ID and financial records, how to include children and pets, which accounts to secure and what to delete, transportation and finances, and trusted contacts who can help without escalating danger.

You do not have to build one alone. We can help.
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This is the team.

The people who answer the calls, sit in the hard rooms, help navigate systems that feel impossible, and show up the next day to do it again.

Every service we provide, every survivor we walk alongside, every safety plan we help build, it runs through people like these.

We are proud to be One SAFE Place. And we are grateful every day to do this work in this community.
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Abuse does not care who you love. And neither does the support we provide.

LGBTQ+ individuals experience domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking at significant rates. And they often face unique barriers to asking for help.

Fear of not being believed. Fear that services are not designed for them. Fear that coming out will become part of the conversation.

One SAFE Place provides trauma-informed, identity-affirming support. No judgment about who you are or who you love.
You belong here.

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You changed your password. You turned off location sharing. That felt like enough.
But there are a few more things worth knowing.

Swipe through for a quick digital safety checklist.

Location sharing: check which apps have access and whether it is set to always on or only when using.
Shared devices: browser history, saved passwords, and autofill are visible to anyone with access.
Cloud accounts: if photos, messages, or notes sync to a shared account, they can be seen.
Passwords: saved in a shared browser can be accessed. Consider a separate private email for sensitive communication.

This is not about paranoia. It is about knowing your options.
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