BOZEMAN — In 2024, Bozeman non-profit Haven helped over 1,500 survivors of domestic violence, a number they say is record-breaking.
“We are almost always at capacity,” said Katie Madison, the executive director at Haven, a non-profit in Bozeman that provides resources including free shelter, legal advocacy, and counseling services to people who have experienced abuse. It's been supporting survivors for about 40 years.
“We’re here ready to meet those survivors when they reach out to us,” said Madison.
Madison said she found out about Haven in 2011 when she worked at a local community health center and had a patient who came in who was abused.
“She was living on the street, she was unhoused, and she had a partner on the street who had beaten her,” said Madison. “And so I met her that nig