Option House, Inc.

Mission Statement: 

Option House, provides 24-hour crisis intervention shelter, transitional housing, outreach services, legal services, information, education, and awareness to family violence victims to STOP the Cycle of Abuse.

Statement of Purpose: 

This organization is focused on promoting the Health, Safety, Rights to the victims of family violence, and to promote the education of the community by:

Providing 24-hour emergency crisis intervention, temporary emergency shelter, food, clothing and support services to victims of family violence.

Providing transitional housing to promote an independent and productive lifestyle to victims of domestic violence and their children.

Providing community awareness to the prevalent incidents of family violence through education and training programs. 

Our History: 

Our organization was the initial provider of domestic violence services in San Bernardino County.  Option House came  from a broad-base of services under the Coalition for Prevention of Abuse of Women and Children. 

Operating under the Central Valley Mental Health Association, the original shelter opened September 1977 in Colton.  In 1980, the Coalition for the Prevention of Abuse of Women and Children was the umbrella agency. And, finally, in 1982, Option House incorporated. In June 1983, Option House moved to its current site, a 5000 square foot building (original Temporary Crisis Intervention Shelter Program).  It was the first building built specifically to house battered women and their children in the state, the second in the nation!