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Help for you, your family, your neighbors, your community.
- Offers individual and group counseling services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
- Provides safe shelter and support services to those fleeing family violence situations.
- Offers intervention services to voluntary and court-referred individuals who have been physically, emotionally, or verbally abusive.
- Encourages a violence-free community through educational outreach that focuses on healthy relationships, effective communication skills, and recognition of abusive behaviors.
- Ensures 24-hour access to information and support for victims of sexual and domestic violence and to those who care about them.
- Supports the Fairfax County Commission for Women, which works to include women’s perspectives in the decisions of government, and to identify and address emerging issues affecting women and girls in our community.
Phone Numbers and Locations
Office for Women &
Domestic and Sexual Violence Services
Fairfax County Government
Center
12000 Government Center Pkwy
Suite 339
Fairfax, VA 22035
703-324-5730; TTY 711
Victim Assistance Network
(VAN)
24-Hour Hotline: 703-360-7273
TTY 703-435-1235
Counseling services offered in Reston, Chantilly, Fairfax, Springfield,
and Alexandria.
Anger & Domestic Abuse Prevention and
Treatment (ADAPT)
703-968-4052
24 Hours: 703-471-6096
TTY 703-968-4050 (leave a message)
ADAPT groups offered in Reston, Chantilly, Fairfax, and Alexandria.
Artemis House – A Shelter
for Victims of Domestic Violenc
24-Hour: 703-435-4940
TTY 703-435-1235
Programs and Services
Encouraging responsibility, healthy choices, and hope.
Violence in the home causes each family member to experience stress, pain, and isolation.
Men, women, and children are all affected when communication breaks down and anger becomes abusive.
If violent or abusive behavior is a problem for you or your family, you can get understanding, support and help. These programs are open to any resident of Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church.
Service providers are sensitive to issues of age, gender, race, disability, religious/ethnic background, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.
Victim Assistance
Network
VAN offers counseling and support services to those in current or past domestic abuse situations. Forms of abuse can be physical, mental, emotional, financial or sexual. VAN also provides services to victims of recent or past sexual assault.
Free services include:
- 24-hour hotline providing emergency information and assistance, counseling, referrals to other services.
- Telephonic interpreters available for hotline calls in any language.
- Group counseling for survivors and families.
- Professional individual counseling.
- Community education and prevention services.
24-Hour Hotline
703-360-7273
TTY 703-435-1235
Fairfax County Artemis House
Artemis House offers a safe, confidential location and supportive counseling to individuals and their children who are fleeing family violence situations.
Free services for shelter residents include:
- Professional counseling services.
- Children’s programs.
- Advocacy and linkages to resources for legal help, employment, housing, medical, child care and other needs.
- Court accompaniment for residents.
- Private accommodations for each family.
- Community education.
- Emergency transportation.
- Safe and supportive atmosphere.
We at Artemis House need your help.
We need your time and talents. Here is how you can help. Also see our wish list of items that enable us to provide a safe and comfortable environment for women and children who are fleeing domestic violence.
24-Hours
703-435-4940
TTY 703-435-1235
Anger &
Domestic Abuse Prevention and Treatment
ADAPT offers domestic abuse intervention to men and women who have been physically, verbally or emotionally abusive; serves both court-referred and voluntary participants.
Services include:
- A compassionate approach to family abuse prevention.
- Individual screening and evaluation.
- Intervention groups to learn safe ways of regulating hurt feelings.
- Referrals and linkages to other service providers.
There is a charge for intake and group sessions.
703-968-4052
24 Hours: 703-471-6096;
TTY 703-968-4050 (Message)
Other Services
Fairfax County Police Department
Emergency: 911
Non-Emergency: 703-691-2131
Magistrates – Issue emergency protective orders
Fairfax: 703-246-2178
Mental Health Sites
Emergency Services: 703-573-5679; TTY 703-207-7737
Appointments/Entry: 703-481-4230; TTY 703-866-2147
Child Protective Services: 703-324-7400; TTY 703-222-9452
Adult Protective Services: 703-324-7450; TTY 703-449-1186
Coordinated Services Planning
Information and referral to human services resources in the
community.
703-222-0880, TTY 703-802-7914
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