Assistance and emergency shelters are homes with multiple rooms and common spaces where help is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We also offer outreach services at our shelters, because we can't house all the women. Meetings will be scheduled with women who don't need housing or whom we can't accommodate. There's a waiting period there too. Sometimes women can wait three to six months to get help.
Then we have second-stage housing, which is housing with a certain amount of supervision and support. Our resources are there to support victims.
Earlier, there was a lot of talk about hotels as a solution, and I'd like to take a moment to talk about that. Sometimes, we have no choice but to use hotels. We've tried it, and the problem we've seen is that women can experience violence because partners can show up. There is no security and, worse, women get no psychological help while at the hotels. We really don't think it's a solution.