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By: Anna Spoerre and Cortlynn Stark // Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Domestic violence shelters, along with rape, crisis and child advocacy centers worry they may soon have to make difficult decisions about funding that could significantly limit the services and resources they offer victims. Late last year, Congress announced a roughly $600 million cut …

by KCUR // Up To Date Prior to the pandemic, many area domestic violence shelters were operating at capacity. With pandemic safety guidelines in place, shelters are losing beds while the need for them has deepened. Kansas City has seen a 30% increase in domestic violence related calls to Newhouse Shelter according to CEO Courtney …

By: Anna Spoerre // Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jane Doe sat in her Kansas City metro area home late on a summer night watching the hours tick by as she waited for her husband to come home. When he did — intoxicated, again — fear took over. Fear for her life, and fear for her …

By: KC Spotlight Staff, // Channel 41 KANSAS CITY, MO. — Domestic violence never takes a break and neither does Newhouse Shelter. Domestic violence is is a community health issue and Newhouse is on the front lines addressing the near 30% surge of reported cases during COVID. Help survivors escape dangerous situations by supporting the Newhouse SOS Campaign.

By: Chris Oberholtz, Savannah Rudicel // Channel 5 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The number of domestic violence calls in Kansas City is up 30 percent during the pandemic. Social service providers are calling it a pandemic within a pandemic. Any problems with domestic violence that already existed in the home may have been made worse with job loss, daycare …

By: Gabriella Pagán // Channel 41 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As calls for help continue to increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, Newhouse Domestic Violence Shelter is overcapacity, forcing the nonprofit to get creative in finding safe alternative housing at a time when they are also running low on funds. But the shelter has become a cause celeb, quite literally, …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Newhouse, Kansas City’s first domestic violence shelter, has been awarded a $15K grant from the When Georgia Smiled: The Robin McGraw Revelation and Dr. Phil Foundation. Funds from this grant will support the much-needed renovation of the Children’s Center for Education, Innovation & Healing located onsite at the shelter. Approximately 50 percent of those …

For almost 50 years, Newhouse has provided safety and helped to give voice to those who have been silenced through domestic violence. While we know that domestic violence knows no racial, socioeconomic, gender, or educational boundaries, racial equity is so important to our organization because we know that structural racism is a key contributor to …

Ted McKnight, known by his endearing fans as “Touchdown Teddy” is a proud supporter of Newhouse’s mission to break the cycle of domestic violence. Transform the lives of survivors by donating now.

By: Emily Holwick // Channel 9 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As businesses begin to reopen, a Northland nonprofit is still deciding when to open its store. The Assistance League of Kansas City is mostly funded by The Resale Shop, a secondhand store in Gladstone. It’s had to close because of the pandemic, but the group is still helping …