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Take Our Client Survey
Help The Friendship Center improve our services with your anonymous feedback.
The Friendship Center
Mar 28
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2024 Annual Report
The Friendship Center provided 8,792 services to 729 known individuals in 2024.
Gina Boesdorfer
Mar 21
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Spring 2025 Reading Recommendation
The literary memoir MAD WIFE chronicles the insidious loss of power and control that can play out over the course of a 20-year relationship.
The Friendship Center
Mar 10
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Take Our Reader Survey
Tell us how you keep up with TFC, what you're interested in learning more about, and anything you'd like us to explore in the future.
The Friendship Center
Feb 28
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The Intersection Between Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
Learn why intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a common but often overlooked tactic abusers use to maintain power and control.
Jaime Gabrielli
Jan 24
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Guest Blog: “Stalking Is My Shadow”
"It is hard to know peace with the shadow of stalking there every step I take. Hard, but not impossible.”
Alison Fuller
Jan 1
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2024 TFC Readers’ Favorites
Check out the stories, Q&As, and issue-specific deep dives from The Friendship Center’s blog that our readers visited the most in 2024.
The Friendship Center
Nov 27, 2024
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Going Home to Meet a Growing Need
Learn how you can help us expand our services with a contiguous campus between our current facility and our old home across the street.
The Friendship Center
Oct 16, 2024
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The Violence of Frontier Fantasies
Learn how some of the prevailing ideas of regional identity in the American West continue to put our communities in harm’s way.
Jackie Brennan
Sep 30, 2024
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Fall 2024 Reading Recommendation
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's 2017 hybrid of memoir and true crime considers if the stories that define us can ever contain the whole truth.
The Friendship Center
Sep 16, 2024
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Campus Assault: Bigger Than the Red Zone
Learn about the misconceptions and factors that contribute to the prevalence of campus sexual assault in early fall semester and beyond.
Jaime Gabrielli
Aug 29, 2024
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Building Community & Giving Back With Eagles 4040
Eagles 4040 in East Helena is bringing people together and generating vital support for local causes throughout the year.
The Friendship Center
Jul 31, 2024
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The Myth of Mutual Domestic Violence
Learn about some of the scenarios between survivors and abusers that are commonly mischaracterized as mutual abuse.
Jaime Gabrielli
Jun 28, 2024
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The Friendship Center Is a Safe Haven for Everyone
Learn about the LGBTQ+ community's elevated risk of experiencing violence and TFC's commitment to being a safe haven for all.
Kim Patterson
Jun 3, 2024
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Our New Online Chat & Text Feature
Our website visitors can now use a new feature to connect with a TFC advocate via chat or text.
The Friendship Center
Jun 3, 2024
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Working With Our Community to Prevent Re-Assault
Learn how a new risk assessment tool coming to our community can help prevent some of the worst outcomes of intimate partner violence.
The Friendship Center
Apr 30, 2024
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Our Community Survey Is Open!
Take a short survey this April to help The Friendship Center improve our services and better support our community.
The Friendship Center
Apr 1, 2024
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Spring 2024 Reading Recommendation
Jon Krakauer's MISSOULA examines several cases of campus rape between 2010 and 2012 and the systems that failed to support survivors.
The Friendship Center
Mar 29, 2024
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2023 Annual Report
Learn about the impact of our community's support in 2023.
Gina Boesdorfer
Mar 21, 2024
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Criminalize or Re-legitimize: Lessons from Our Red-Light History
Learn what our past and present can teach us about the dangers of criminalization-based reform approaches in the American sex industry.
Jackie Brennan
Feb 29, 2024
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