shalom bayit is a hebrew phrase that means, peace in the home.hin a jewish cultural context it is a kind of play, if we can use that word, on the importance of a jewish value we have in general, in that way using that particular jewish value to apply it to the issues of domestic violence within jewish families. >> it is really our vision that every woman and child have a right to have peace in their own home and that is a basic foundation of any healthy community . to be safe in your own home. >> naomi, what have you seen over the years in terms of community changes in response, changes in community impact. changes in the ways in which the community perceives this issue and is willing to talk about this issue? >> there has been an enormous change . in the beginning when we started, no one would talk about domestic violence in the jewish community. now, the jewish community here in the san francisco bay area is very much aware of the assistance of domestic violence, people don't question as much and that makes it much safer for women to come forwa

can you talk more about the concrete services that shalom bayit provides people?e first service we provide is a phone canceling line. it is not a 24 hour line but during business hours we try as hard as we can to answer the phone and anyone answering the phone can provide guidance, emotional support, and some kind of concrete planning for next steps when someone is calling us. in two of our main counseling programs are really lovely. we have support group services, both in the east bay and throughout the rest of the bay area on a rotating basis. and support groups are chance for women who have been abused to come together and feel that the bus alone and some of those shame and secrecy is broken down. we have women in those groups who have experienced a very bad physical violence . women who have had financial abuse. women who have had verbal and psychological abuse and the get together and work on healing. file for individual counseling, focused around trauma and healing from the abuse. and navigating spirituality within a jewish lands after something atrocious li

we also i see the beauty of some of our faith based organizations glide and cameron house, shalom bayit working to end domestic violence in the jewish community and a couple of other ones. we're trying to work with the interfaith council to make sure that we are speaking from the pulpit in san francisco, that we are connecting with congregants, that we are also offering services where so many people come for their support. so we have that too. there's a big potential there. we haven't lived up to it yet, but we will . so when we look at self-identified women and homelessness in san francisco, and i have to say i'm going to share that i borrowed this from some of our sisters at the women's housing coalition. we're one of the founding supporters, members, and they just presented last night at the commission on the status of women, 38% of san francisco's unhoused population are self-identified women. are we seeing 38% of them on the street? no, we're not. it's a hidden epidemic, just like domestic violence. so 38% is approximately 3000. and that's a snapshot of any given day. it's not an a