Women`s Aid is dedicated to providing refuge, support, advice, and training in the Ballymena, Antrim, Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey areas to women who are suffering abuse within the home. Please browse our site for more information about the services we offer.

	To provide temporary refuge to women and their children suffering mental, physical or sexual abuse within the home.
	To encourage the woman to take control of her own future, whether this involves returning home or beginning an independent life.
	To recognize and care for the emotional needs of the children involved.
	To offer support and advice to any woman who asks for it, whether or not she is living in a refuge and to offer supportive aftercare to women leaving the refuge.
	To educate and inform the public, the media, the courts, social services and other agencies, always mindful of thefact that abused women are a direct result of the general position of women in our society.