ABOUT MY SISTER'S HOUSE

A Brief History of My Sister's House
Vision and Mission Statement
Accomplishments
Awards My Sisters House Recived
Financial Information

VISION and MISSION STATEMENT

Vision Statement
My Sister's House seeks to eliminate domestic violence in the Asian and Pacific Islander community through family education, and by increasing the self-determination of Asian and Pacific Islander women.

Mission Statement
The mission of My Sister's House is to serve the needs of Asian and Pacific Islander women and children impacted by domestic violence by providing a culturally appropriate and responsive safe haven and community services.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Our 6-bed Safe Haven shelter opened in 2003. In five years, we have:

• Provided more than 9000 bed nights of shelter to Asian & Pacific Islander women and children;
  
• Responded to over 1900 calls to our 24-hour multilingual Help Line;
  
• Served more than 250 domestic violence survivors of all ethnicities in our award-winning Women to Work program;
  
• Made 100 presentations on domestic violence to local school, businesses, organizations, and places of worship and participated in more than 25 community fairs, educating more than 8000 people about domestic violence; and
  
• Hosted 5 annual conferences to train over 150 service
  providers from communities across the Central Valley on cultural competency and working with battered immigrant women

Awards My Sister's House has received

• 2008 Asian Bar Association of Sacramento Community Service Award
• 2008 Soroptimists of South Sacramento Award
• 2007 Philippine Fiesta Community Best Award
• 2007 Upliftin Human Values Awards
• 2006 Sacramento Housing Alliance  Award 

Financial Information

2006-2007 Annual report. Download (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Required). 
2005-2006 Annual report. Download (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Required). 
2004-2005 Annual report. Download (PDF file, Adobe Acrobat Required).