Crisis Line and Safe House of Central Georgia Expands to Crawford County

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Victims of domestic issues who talk to the Crisis Line and Safe House can now meet with representatives a little closer to home. 

Before they’d have to go to the main offices in Macon, but now people can help them where they live. 

Armed with a laptop, a couple dozen flyers, and a drive to help out in the community, Shea Simmons racks up the miles around middle Georgia, and she’s happy to do it.

She’s the rural outreach advocate for Crisis Line and Safe House of Central Georgia, a safe haven for victims of domestic violence or sexual assault.

“It’s harder for victims to kind of get into Bibb County where our main office is located and thankfully I’m able to actually travel to go out and meet them,” Simmons said. 

 The organization serves Crawford County as well as Peach, Jones, Twiggs, and Macon-Bibb Counties.

The number of victims in need is staggering and Simmons wants to lend a hand.

“There is kind of a much higher need I think than what a lot of people expect for communities that are so small and so close knit,” Simmons said. 

“The rate of protective orders I’ve been able to do and the rate of people that have actually come to Crisis Line from those communities has at least doubled,” he said. 

Crisis Line and Safe House is made up of two components, the domestic violence advocacy program and the sexual assault advocacy program.

“Both of these programs are great resources in the community for victims because they provide all of the services that I mentioned before as far as helping people find safe shelter, helping with legal advocacy as well as counseling services and connecting them to different agencies that can help with that sort of thing,” Simmons said. 

With the click of a mouse, a stroke of a keyboard, or simply on the phone, Simmons wants anyone who’s abused to know that help is just one call away.

Simmons says flyers with Crisis’ number is listed in courthouses across middle Georgia. 

To contact the 24/7 Crisis Hotline that number is 478-745-9292

For more information head to their website here.