-1979 the YWCA of Fort Smith Proclaims its mission to help battered women.
-1987 Purchased a separate shelter to house families of violence.
-1994 The Crisis Center for Battered Women takes its own identity, separte of the YWCA, to focus solely on vitim services.
-1994 The Violence Against Women Act was put into legilation, providing federal funding to vicitims assistance programs.
-1997 The Crisis Center for Battered Women began providing sexual assault services.
-1998 Name change from Crisis Center for Battered Women to Crisis Center for Women to better represent the overall victims we serve. A local youth group donating toys poses in front of the new sign.
-1999 CCW partnered with the Area-Health Education Center and other service providers to offer an on-site sexual assault response center.
-2000 Opened one of the few family violence child services programs in a licensed child care setting.
-2001 Crisis Center for Women staff gather with Santa for the client Christmas Party.
-2002 19 Arkansans lost their lives to domestic violence. The Crisis Center for Women set up the Silent Witness Display to represent these lost lives.
-CCW Executive Director, Leslee Milam Post, and Mayor Ray Baker proclaim October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
-2003 The Chothesline Project represents thousands of women that have lost their lives at the hands of their intimate partners. Family members and friends of victims make a shirt in memory of their lost loved one.
-June 2003 CCW is awarded a 2.6 million capital grant, from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. for new dream facility.
-2007 Groundbreaking of the new facility
-2008 Construction complete and mail office move into the new building at 5603 South 14th St.
-2009 Name changed from Crisis Center for Women to the Crisis Intervention Center.
-2009 April 22nd, dedication of the new Donald W. Reynolds Crisis Intervention Center Building.
Our agency originated in 1979 as a mission of the Young Woman's Christian Association (YWCA), serving as a safe-haven for women and children fleeing family violence. By 1994, our board decided to cease functioning as a YWCA chapter because it felt the demand for victim services warranted an agency solely dedicated to carrying out this purpose. We adopted the name Crisis Center for Battered Women, Inc.
Our new identity provided us the opportunity to apply for and acquire federal funds through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and other related resources. Over the next several years we purchased additional facilities and added staff to better meet the needs of domestic violence, as well as sexual assault victims, in our community. We changed our name in 1998 to Crisis Center for Women, Inc. (CCW).
In June of 2003 the Crisis Center for Women was awarded a $2.6 million capital grant to build a model victim service center. The design of our model facility moves away from the traditional approach of keeping shelter clients safe by housing them in an undisclosed location. Instead, we offer a one-stop facility that offers an advanced security system. The facility encompasses our administrative services, direct services, shelter for up to 30 persons at any given time, child service center with a licensed day care, rape response center and a training area. With the completion of our new facility in 2008, we once again changed our name to Crisis Intervention Center, Inc. (CIC), to better represent the overall victim services our agency provides.
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