In 2023, Rose Brooks Center’s Bridge Program™ celebrated 25 years of service. This hospital-based program is credited with initiating the following routine question hospitals continue to ask patients to this very day: “Do you feel safe at home?”
Twenty-five years later, this groundbreaking initiative has saved countless lives and is just one way community members learn about our services. In fact, we recently heard from a survivor who is now in safe housing through our Housing Program. When she was asked how she first heard about Rose Brooks Center, she responded:
“I heard about Rose Brooks years ago. I remember going to the hospital, and them saying, ‘Are you safe at home?’ And I thought, well, that’s a strange question to ask. And I asked the lady, I said, ‘Why would you ask that?’ And she explained that because if you weren’t, if your answer was no to that question, then there would be a counselor that would come in and speak to you here. That there were services that would help you, and that place was Rose Brooks. So in the back of my mind, I always thought, if I’m ever in trouble, or if the answer to that question is ever no, then I can always reach out to Rose Brooks. I had no idea that one day, years later, I would need to call them for help.”
