All of Our Services are free+confidential

Women In Need Center provides the following services and programs in order to encourage Asian women in need to achieve economic independence and financial freedom.

1. Crisis Phone Line Hotline

Call Women In Need Center’s toll-free hotline at 1-800-539-5007, if you are (or see) an Asian woman who is facing domestic violence, sexual harassment/exploitation, mental illness, drug addiction, homeless or want information on these issues.

The counselor in charge will help you.

Call 911 if you are faced in a violent situation or feel an impulse to hurt yourself.

All counseling contents including personal information will be kept confidential.

Call at 718-539-6546 or 718-539-5515, if you are interested in any other program/service that the Women In Need Center provides.

1) Hotline Use Instruction

For Cases
Please counsel with hotline counselor.

For Referrers
Give the Women In Need Center’s contact number or connect the phone to the hotline counselor to a person in need.

2) Hotline providing service

If you are in need of a shelter:
We provide a short-term and temporary shelter residency after an initial phone counseling and in-person interview.

The Women In Need Center is in coordination with various New York City shelter services if you cannot qualify for our shelter’s service benefits.

3) Other WINC Program & Service in need

We provide the information on the program and service that is in need.

4) Program & service that Winc doesn’t provide is in need

We will give program and service information that is provide by community organization, if that program and service are not provided by the Rainbow Center.

2. Shelter Service

The Women In Need Center provides temporary and transitional housing services with hot meals and comfort. Legal standing does not limit the eligibility to apply for the shelter service. Also, the W.I.N.C. does not discriminate applicants based on their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, age, or disability. It is our goal to ensure equal opportunity for the applicants in the selection process. Admittance to the shelter will be determined by the case’s sense of urgency, safety and current space availability at the shelter. The framework of the shelter service is strongly rooted in the belief that provision of a safe residence must go hand-in-hand with strengthening one’s self-reliance. Since expanding housing services to Asian women and their families in 2009, single or divorced mothers with children have grown to account for 10% of those applicants who are admitted to the shelter program.

1) Case Management

Case management is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual’s health needs. Shelter residents of the W.I.N.C. are encouraged to draft a personal plan to prepare for their living after the transitional period at the shelter. Our professional case worker can outline a facilitation process includes art therapy, job skill training, mental and physical health assistance, translation/interpretation, advocacy, entitlement assistance, and legal and housing referral through a needs assessment.

2) Counseling(Group/individual/art therapy)

Individual counseling offers a woman the opportunity to share the depths of her suffering and to vent her long-withheld anger and fears. Each client recognize and appreciate her individual strengths as she works with her counselor in setting new goals and designing a plan to achieve them.

The focus of group therapy is to improve an individual’s ability to function as well as alleviate symptoms that may significantly interfere with their functioning. In group therapy, people begin to see that they are not alone and that there is hope and help. The group is able to give support, offer alternatives, and comfort members in such a way that these difficulties become resolved and alternative behaviors are learned. The group also allows a person to develop new ways of relating to people.

Art therapy is the therapeutic use of art making, within a professional relationship, by people who experience illness, trauma, or challenges in living, and by people who seek personal development. Through creating art and reflecting on the art products and processes, people can increase awareness of self and others cope with symptoms, stress, and traumatic experiences; enhance cognitive abilities; and enjoy the life-affirming pleasures of making art. Art Therapy: Definition of the Profession (AATA, 2002)

Art therapist at WINC uses art in assessment, treatment and provide consultations. Art therapy program offers individual and group counseling and art therapy for children and woman.

3. Outreach

Outreach Program

Non-residential service that provides case management, counseling, advocacy assistance, support group, entitlement assistance, and job training to the former residents of WINC and women in need to maintain independent living in the community.

4. Legal & Medical Service

Legal Assistance

The lawyer or organization with professional knowledge on domestic violence and immigration law will provide legal consultation.

The legal services that can be provide are order of protection, issue of visa, accompany to the court.

5. Public Assistance

The public benefit resources such as SSI, Food Stamp, Medicaid, and WIC and related information will be provided

6. Art Project & Job training

W.I.N.C.’s new Art Therapy Program has been successful in launching a sister program, where independent and sweatshop-free handmade crafts from soaps to flower-pressed bookmarkers are sold to provide a patch income during times of transition, creating an opportunity for new beginnings for those would be unemployed otherwise.

Purchasing a shelter-made handcraft, no matter how small, represents a major step for the shelter-resident by giving her an ever-increasing sense of empowerment necessary to achieve sustained economic self-sufficiency.

7. Advocacy & Activism

Advocacy

The Women In Need Center works to keeps a goal to improve the social systems for Asian women living in the United States. There are many sponsors, support campaigns and t various media speakers that endeavor the issues of women’s domestic violence, family issues, poverty and homelessness.

Activism

Minority women, especially whose living in poverty and/or involved in abusive interracial relationships, often lack the language skills, means, and resources necessary to see help or independence. Since the founding, the Center has been actively involved in political campaigns for human rights, as well as campaigns to raise awareness about the prejudices and discrimination faced by Asian American women. Collaborating with neighboring immigrant communities of the greater New York area, Womne In Need Center has been fighting for immigrant women’s voices to be heard. With each action we take, we envision a society without discrimination ro violence where each individual lives a dignified and healthful life regardless of gender, nationality, race, sexual orientation or class.

The Women In Need Center has also hosted screenings of documentary films “Me and the Owl” and “And Thereafter” Part I. Both films deal with the often taboo and seldom chronicled topic of vulnerable women who face extreme poverty, violence, prejudice and their efforts to survive and live in dignity. The screenings sought to expose the harsh realities and humanitarian crises of women whose plight and suffering are otherwise invisible.