Support groups and classes provide a safe, non-judgmental and confidential place to connect with others who have shared similar experiences. Licensed therapists facilitate all groups. Most groups run one night a week for a set number of weeks.

Safe Connections support groups and classes are free and are available to women 18 years of age and older who have experienced relationship violence, sexual assault and/or are adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Call 314.646.7500 x117 or x 141 for more information.

Steps to Healing in Relationships

This program is for women experience emotional or physical violence or who are affected by memories of past abuse. It explores the definitions of abuse, the effects of domestic violence on self and family, ways of coping with abuse and how to identify abusive people.

Building Healthy Relationships

This group is for women who have experienced abuse and have difficulty forming trusting relationships. It explores ways to enhance positive social and intimate relationships, including developing assertiveness skills, maintain healthy boundaries, define healthy relationships and stop the legacy of violent relationships within the family.

Healing Through Art

This program is designed to help women work through experiences of abuse using art and dialogue. Art experience is not necessary for this group.

The Mother Within

This program offers ways to nurture the woman, soother, nurturer - the mother - within each of us. Participants do NOT need to be a mother to join the group.

Body Image

For women who struggle with their own body image or are concerned about how women are portrayed in society.

Trauma Recovery and Empowerment

This program offers support to women who have experienced severe and traumatic physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse and struggle with painful thoughts, feelings and emotions. It focuses on self-empowerment, personal trauma history, safety and self-growth. Due to the complexity of issues addressed in this group, it requires a minimum 26-week commitment, and participants must be receiving or open to enrolling in individual therapy with Safe Connections or another agency of client's choice.

Parenting After Domestic Violence

Children who have witnessed domestic abuse often behave differently and require different parenting styles than those who grow up in safe households. This group is for women with children who are either experiencing or have experienced domestic violence and explores how to parent children when domestic abuse is or was present in the home.