Since 1979 SPAN’s core mission has been to help victims of domestic violence and their children stay safe. SPAN’s services are open to all survivors and their families.
But for more than 45 years the reality is that more than 95% of SPAN’s adult clients are women. In 2024, SPAN supported more than 1,400 adults and children in Boulder and Broomfield counties, including more than 800 mothers and their 363 children. The average age of these kids was 6 and more than 100 of them stayed with their mom at SPAN’s Emergency Shelter.
Survivors and their children come to SPAN frightened and traumatized by the violence and instability in their lives – they have often fled their homes, literally running for their lives – and thanks to our community of supporters, SPAN is there. To provide safe, emergency shelter; to keep victims of domestic violence from having to choose between staying with an abusive partner or becoming homeless; to support survivors and their families as they build lives that are safe, stable, and free from fear. That is what SPAN does and we are still here.
Anything that puts core, community-based human services like SPAN’s programming in jeopardy makes us all less safe. Anything that creates barriers to survivors of domestic violence reporting the abuse and cooperating with law enforcement makes us all less safe.
During this time of so much uncertainty SPAN is committed to leaning into our community, to focus on what we all can do to continue to support victims of domestic violence and their children, and to build a safer world for us all. That is what SPAN does and we are still here.
