Women In Transition’s (WIT) Board of Directors is actively seeking new board members to help guide the organization. Our next board member could be you!

Join us for our *Virtual* 5th Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month Poetry event on October 7.

For many of our clients, working with the police is often a mixed bag.

WIT volunteer Vicki Russo spent countless hours in 2018 and 2019 turning dozens of boxes of WIT documents into an organized and library-quality archive. Read her reflections on WIT’s 50th anniversary.

Leaving an abusive relationship can be challenging especially if an abusive partner continues to stalk, harass, or threaten a Survivor. Many WIT clients find that creating a clean break is not possible on their own—and therefore enlist the legal system to get a Protection from Abuse order (PFA), but the system is complicated and often disempowering.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the date when Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to ensure that enslaved people were freed. Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, but it is relevant today for a number of reasons- the first being that it is an important part of American history.

One group often left out of discussions of domestic violence/intimate partner violence (IPV) is military service members and veterans. Service members have some distinct risk factors that may increase their likelihood of experiencing IPV.

Philly has an affordable housing problem. Combined with domestic violence the reality is devastating.

It’s 1975 and Women In Transition is located on the corner of Chester Ave & 47th Streets in West Philadelphia. A small collective of women, united in their vision of a world where women have full agency over their lives, are running support groups, connecting people to resources, and navigating a legal system designed to disempower.

Are you dating online? While the majority of online dates are harmless, there are steps you can take to maximize your safety.

Women In Transition works at the intersection of domestic violence (DV) and substance abuse. Many of our recovery clients are also survivors of DV; they’re dealing with both issues, along with other layers of trauma. When you add COVID-19 to this equation, you get a sense of what our clients are going through.