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Family Rescue Services was organized as a nonprofit corporation of the State of Nebraska in 1988. It operates under the direction of a Board of Directors comprised of individuals from the four-county service area. Family Rescue Services serves Dawes, Sheridan, Box Butte, and Sioux Counties in northwest Nebraska. We have offices in Chadron, Gordon, Alliance, and Harrison, with shelters available in Chadron, Gordon, and Alliance. Our focus is that all training, advocacy, and procedures shall focus on empowerment of victims, volunteers, and staff. Our basic principles include client confidentiality, we are driven by our client's needs, empowerment, respecting the client's decisions (whatever they may be), believing the client, and finally, we give options not advice. We will be a voice for victims and their children, we will point out system weaknesses that hurt victims of violence, we will try our hardest to educate the uneducated about violence and its impact on families and communities, and we will continue to educate ourselves on community resources. Family Rescue Services receives its main funding from grants from Nebraska Health and Human Services, Nebraska Crime Commission, and Nebraska Department of Economic Development's Homeless Assistance Programs. Other sources of funding include private grants and donations. We are very grateful to have received a half a million dollar grant in June 2004, which has allowed us to expand and offer new services to the community and our clients.