Northwoods Battered Women’s Shelter completed construction on its new $2.7 million facility at Hannah Ave and Pine Ridge Street in Bemidji, Minnesota. The shelter is open.
Serving Beltrami and Cass counties, NBWS is a domestic violence shelter and advocacy program that provides emergency crisis shelter and advocacy to victims and survivors of intimate partner violence. Advocates are on duty at the shelter 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For more than 20 years, Northwoods Battered Women’s Shelter has urgently needed a new facility. In 2024, the shelter turned away more than 400 victims and survivors due to lack of space.
Built by Kraus-Anderson and designed by DSGW Architecture, the new one-floor 8,200-square-foot building will feature eight bedrooms with ensuites, five offices, two intake rooms, a children’s playroom, meeting room, therapy room, laundry, a great room with kitchen and a fenced in area for a safe place to be outdoors.
NBWS’s crucial services also include connections to housing and employment opportunities.
To fund the new facility, NBWS is continuing its capital campaign, which thus far has raised $3.9 million toward its $4 million goal.
Construction began May 17, 2024.
