Middle Way House

At Middle Way House, we recognize the vital role our supporters play in our mission. Your support enables us to provide crucial services to survivors of sexual violence, domestic violence, and human trafficking, including an emergency shelter, legal advocacy, transitional housing, and support services.

Thank you for your interest and support!

Questions About Volunteer Trainings or Positions?

Please get in touch with Claire, Crisis Intervention Program Coordinator, with questions about volunteer trainings and/or positions at volunteer@middlewayhouse.org.

View our volunteer page on our website at https://middlewayhouse.org/takeanaction/volunteer/

Our service area covers six counties (Monroe, Martin, Morgan, Owen, Lawrence, and Greene), totaling almost 350,000 people. We offer many services, including a 24/7 crisis line, legal advocacy, support groups, on-scene advocacy, emergency shelter, transitional housing, and educational and community-building programming. While our focus is on ending intimate partner violence in the lives of all people, we are also committed to working with other groups and institutions in their work to address issues such as racism, homelessness, homophobia/transphobia, and ableism. 

Vision

Middle Way House envisions a community where individuals live free from violence and the threat of violence; a community characterized by equality across the gender spectrum and social and economic justice; a community where everyone’s contribution is honored and individual and group differences are valued; a community where everyone is adequately fed, housed, educated and employed; a community that provides opportunities for meaningful participation, personal growth, and creative expression.

Mission

To end both structural and interpersonal violence.

Purposes

• To implement and sustain meaningful alternatives to living with violence.
• To meet the specific housing, employment, and service needs of abused individuals and their children.
• To increase the likelihood that victims of abuse will overcome whatever negative consequences have accrued to them and go on to experience success at home, in school, and in the wider community.
• To offer a comprehensive range of services responsive to individual needs and differences.
• To improve the response of community agencies and institutions when victims report violence, seek remedies for it, and get ready to move on with their lives.
• To advocate for the transformation of social structures that lead to disempowerment.
• To network with/provide training to other professionals likely to interact with victims/survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
• To reach out, through a variety of media, to the general public to raise awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault, provide information about the cycle of violence and available remedies, and encourage sensitive and appropriate responses to victims of violence.
• To present programming designed to enhance peoples’ capacity to engage constructively with others, solve problems and resolve conflicts without recourse to violence or the imposition of power and control, and establish and maintain intimate relationships based on equality.