Women's Resource Center of Newport & Bristol Counties

Mission Statement

"Leading domestic violence prevention through the empowerment of individuals and the community by providing advocacy, education and support services".

114 Touro Street, Newport		624 Main Street, Warren

24 Hour Hotline - 1-866-236-2474

For directions to our centers please visit MapQuest 

Our Center is open for confidential advocacy and crisis support for domestic violence Monday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and can be reached by calling the business office at (401)846-5263. Other important telephone numbers include: Newport hotline number (401)847-2533, Bristol/Warren office at (401)247-2070, Little Compton at (401)625-1144, Jamestown at (401)423-9649 and After Hours Hotline at (401)256-3761. All calls are completely confidential. We do not use caller ID.

About Our Site

We launched our site in October of 1999 in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month to help raise awareness of the issues surrounding domestic violence. Our purpose in establishing this web site is to enhance the dissemination of information concerning the services that The Women's Resource Center of Newport & Bristol Counties offers, to share new information about the links between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence, to promote Peace in our schools, to encourage participation in our volunteer programs and upcoming events, and to de-mystify the "systems" such as court-issued restraining orders, safe home policies, and to explain the procedures for engaging children in our Children-Who-Witness program. We hope you will find this site useful and, please, check back often as we continue to add new information, update existing information, and add useful links to other web-based domestic violence resources.

WARNING!

Computer use can be monitored and is impossible to completely clear. If you are afraid your internet and/or computer usage might be monitored, please use a safer computer at the library or at a friend's house or you can call the Women's

Resource Center of Newport & Bristol Counties at (401) 847-2533 or call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233).

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E- mail

If an abuser has access to your email account, he or she may be able to read your incoming and outgoing mail. if you believe your account is secure, make sure you choose a password he or she will not be able to guess.

If an abuser sends you threatening or harassing email messages, they may be printed and saved as evidence of this abuse. Additionally, the messages may constitute a federal offense. For more information on this issue, contact your local United States District Attorney's Office.

If an abuser knows how to read your computer's history or cache file (automatically saved web pages and graphics), he or she may be able to see information you have viewed recently on the internet.

You can clear your history or empty your cache file in your browser's settings.*.

Internet Explorer

Pulldown View menu, select Internet Options. On General page, under Temporary Internet Files , click on Delete Files. Under History click on Clear History.

AOL

Pulldown Members menu, select Preferences. Click on www icon. Then select Advanced. Purge Cache.

* This information may not completely hide your tracks. Many browser types have features that display recently visited sites. The safest way to find information on the internet, would be at a local library, a friend's house, or at work.

Thanks very much to Ruth Laura Edlund, Attorney at Law, for her help in getting this message to you.

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