The SAFE Alliance
Laura Laufer is a dedicated professional with extensive experience in community advocacy and child care. Currently serving as a Community Resource Advocate at The SAFE Alliance since October 2020, Laura has successfully utilized over $300,000 in financial assistance to support the housing and stabilization of 45 families and individuals, while ensuring compliance with grant requirements and optimizing client service utilization. Previous roles include Therapeutic Child Care Specialist at Helping Hand Home for Children, where Laura implemented treatment practices for children, and a Customer Service Representative at Beacon Hill Staffing Group. Laura's career began with caregiving, focusing on daily living assistance and care coordination, and also includes an internship at Priscilla Pond Flawn Child & Family Laboratory, where documentation of child development contributed to scientific research. Laura holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from St. Edward's University.
The SAFE Alliance
The SAFE Alliance is a Central Texas nonprofit organization working to stop abuse for everyone. SAFE supports children, adults, and families who have experienced abuse by providing safety, stability, and healing. To more effectively put an end to child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, and sex trafficking, SAFE provides shelter, counseling, legal assistance, sexual assault forensic exams, a charter school, and more. In addition to direct services, SAFE works to prevent violence before it occurs through parenting assistance and education, programs that promote healthy teen relationships, and working with communities disproportionately affected by abuse. Violence and abuse are a cycle, often transferred across generations. We work to break that cycle. As part of the SAFE Alliance, the SAFE INSTITUTE provides workplace training and consulting for companies to prevent sexual harassment and create safe, respectful work environments. SAFE is a merger of SafePlace and the Austin's Children's Shelter and has over 45 years of experience in the field of violence prevention and response. Learn more about our merger at safeaustin.org/merger With an annual budget of more than $20 million, more than 350 employees and thousands of volunteers, SAFE now has prevention and crisis programs operating across multiple campuses and in the schools, hospitals, courts, county and District Attorney’s offices. NEED HELP? SAFEline is a 24-hour confidential hotline for people seeking help with sexual or domestic violence, child abuse, human trafficking, or parenting support and is available by phone at 512.267.SAFE (7233), by text at 737.888.7233, or by online chat at safeaustin.org/chat.