When women and children flee abusive homes, The Salvation Army\u2019s Kate Booth House in Vancouver offers immediate shelter and support.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s only a temporary solution and after 30 days they have to move on. One of the next stops for some is the Army\u2019s Esther\u2019s Place, a 4-apartment safe house where families can stay up to two years.<\/p>\n
Esther\u2019s Place \u2014 which receives no government funding \u2014 is where women who became homeless, single parents overnight can get the support to find a job, get training and find a new place to live. Captain Jennifer Hillier heads both ministries. \u201cKate Booth is crisis intervention and Esther\u2019s Place is a bridge from an old life that was damaging to a new life of safety and security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When women and children flee abusive homes, The Salvation Army\u2019s Kate Booth House in Vancouver offers immediate shelter and support. But that\u2019s only a temporary solution and after 30 days they have to move on. One of the next stops for some is the Army\u2019s Esther\u2019s Place, a 4-apartment safe house where families can stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n