Women in Distress Pet Shelter

Client Women in Distress of Broward County
Services
  • Programming
  • Site preparation and planning
  • Construction Documents
Status Completed in 2018
Success Not every project is based on "bricks and mortar." When a nonprofit organization sought help with a unique solution to a housing need, SRS assisted with architectural know-how to give a relocatable unit a permanent place in the existing communal campus.

Women in Distress Pet Shelter

Broward County, FL

Women in Distress is a nonprofit organization that maintains a 132-bed campus for women and children survivors of domestic violence. Often, these families are reluctant to leave their dangerous and abusive homes for worry about leaving their pets behind. Recently, in a unique partnership with the Humane Society of Broward County, the campus became the only Florida domestic abuse center certified with an approved pet shelter. Here, pets are assured of proper nutrition, physical exams, and vaccines, while women and children are safely housed and protected from abuse on the sheltered campus. SRS provided planning and design work, including site preparation and interior design of the collapsible, relocatable structural component made by FORTS, of Pompano Beach. The company fabricates movable structures for military and emergency situations, but this one was specially adapted by SRS for pet residency and care needs. Exteriors portray colorful and cheerful graphics.