About LifeWire
LifeWire is one of Washington State’s leading nonprofits ending domestic violence and supporting survivors on their paths to safety, stability, and healing. Through comprehensive services—including emergency shelter, housing assistance, and advocacy—LifeWire empowers survivors to rebuild their lives. LifeWire works to prevent domestic violence through community outreach and free prevention trainings. Since our founding, we have helped over 176,000 survivors live free from fear.
In 1982, we opened our doors as Eastside Domestic Violence Program (EDVP), serving survivors in east and north King County, Washington by offering support groups and emergency shelter. Since then, our services have grown to include survivor-driven advocacy, mental health therapy, shelter, and housing throughout Western Washington.
LifeWire is a member of the Greater Seattle Business Association, the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce, OneRedmond, the Greater Kirkland Chamber of Commerce, and the Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce. We connect fully to the communities we serve, and we are proud to call East King County home.
Our mission and vision
LifeWire supports survivors of domestic violence on their path towards safety, stability, and healing. We work to end domestic violence by changing community beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.
Domestic violence is a human rights issue. LifeWire envisions a community in which every person lives in a safe environment, free from oppression and with the opportunity to thrive.
What we do
LifeWire offers survivor-driven, trauma-informed services, promotes prevention through community-based training and coaching and leads through pioneering strategies and partnerships.
We support survivors
Our advocates partner with survivors on their individual journeys to gain renewed strength and empowerment. We listen to survivors as they describe their needs and help them identify resources that will enable them to build safer lives. By tailoring our support to each survivor, we can respond to survivors’ unique barriers, challenges, and goals.
We provide paths to safer housing
At LifeWire, we believe that no survivor should have to choose between staying in an abusive relationship and becoming homeless. Our housing-first programs prioritize getting or keeping survivors housed so they can improve their safety and pursue personal goals.
We partner for change
Friends, family, neighbors, and employers play an integral part in early DV intervention and prevention. LifeWire’s free, virtual trainings and workshops are tailored to the needs, size, and time availability of your group, equipping participants to understand; What is DV? What are the signs? How do I safely help? How can we prevent DV? Who does DV impact? Learn more about our free DV 101 Trainings.
Mandatory Disclosures:
This website is supported by Grant Number 2412-56740 from the office of Community-Based Violence Program Emergency Shelter and Supportive Services and Grant Number 2212-45096 from the FVPSA DV Health Supports and COVID Mitigation within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Neither the Administration for Children and Families nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Administration for Children and Families and the the office of Community-Based Violence Program Emergency Shelter and Supportive Services or the FVPSA DV Health Supports and COVID Mitigation.