Services
ACT Emergency Shelter
The ACT Emergency Shelter offers a safe haven for victims of domestic violence and their children. Our Fort Myers shelter offers 73-beds and our Cape Coral shelter has 23-beds and 19 in our Hendry County shelter.
In our fiscal year 2018, ACT provided shelter for 692 residential clients for over 25,000 nights of shelter, and provided 18,316 residential counseling hours.
In August 2015, ACT opened a shelter in Hendry County.
Here is an overview of the services offered to clients and their children staying in our emergency shelters. Please visit our Residential Counseling Program Page for more detailed information on services provided to our residents.
- Safe emergency shelters
- Individual and Group Counseling
- Goal Setting
- Safety Planning
- Food
- Clothing
- Job Skills
- Personal Care Items
- Assistance with Resume’s
- Parenting Skills
- Specialized Children’s Program
- Child Assessments
- Tutoring for Children
This site is owned and maintained by Abuse Counseling and Treatment, Inc., a non-profit agency funded in part by United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades Counties, Lee County, Florida Department of Children and Families, Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, City of Cape Coral, Office of the Attorney General, The Bobby Nichols - Fiddlesticks Charity Foundation, fundraising and donations from the community.
