Through our activities at Hope Cottage, Hope Restored, and the WCDVP Outreach Office, we are always working to end domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, and human trafficking in central Arkansas.

White County Domestic Violence Prevention (WCDVP) has offered help and hope to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in central Arkansas since its incorporation in 1996. What started as a small local effort by a few concerned citizens, eventually evolved into the development of an emergency domestic violence shelter aptly named Hope Cottage.

In 2007, our agency took over the local rape crisis hotline and began to provide supportive services to victims of sexual assault as well. WCDVP operated Hope Cottage out of several locations until 2010, when we found its permanent home after a wonderful local family wanted to donate their late mother’s house, a lovely building in a secure location. This location also serves as the location for Hope Hotline, our 24/7/365 crisis hotline for victims of violent crime.

In 2013, we opened our thrift store Hope Restored in Searcy. Hope Restored provides for the needs of victims by accepting donations from the public, and using those donations to improve the lives of victims, either by giving the donated item directly to the residents at Hope Cottage, or by selling it in our store and using the proceeds to provide services to victims. Hope Restored continues to act as a community voice for survivors and as a place where we can provide educational materials and awareness activities to the general public.

In early 2022, we re-examined our goals and determined that we needed to add a prevention/outreach element to our activities in order to live up to our full potential as a prevention agency. We decided to open an outreach office in August 2022, in order to provide services to victims who don’t necessarily need emergency shelter, but still need advocacy and assistance of various types. The WCDVP Outreach Office also allows Hope Cottage residents to receive follow up services like support groups, parenting classes, domestic violence counseling, resources and referrals, court advocacy, safety planning, and other types of assistance, after they move out of the shelter and as they progress on their journey into a violence free future. We also use our outreach office to coordinate all of our community education and awareness activities and we provide educational training on all of our focus areas to community partners and the general public at this location.