2012 Press Releases

Houston Area Women's Center President and CEO, Rebecca White, named one of Houston's 50 Most Influential Women of 2011 by Houston Woman Magazine, 1/9/2012 Read more.

Houston Area Women’s Center Announces
2012 Board Chair and New Members, 1/1/2012

The Women’s Center anticipates a productive thirty-fifth anniversary year as Diana M. Hudson (Partner, Andrews Kurth LLP), takes the helm as board chair. With six new members joining the board in 2012, Hudson will lead an accomplished and diverse assembly of twenty-eight professionals and community leaders who are committed to providing guidance, leadership and resources to support the Center’s mission. A longtime supporter of the Houston Area Women’s Center, Board Chair Diana M. Hudson acknowledged, “I'm looking forward to working with a great group of leaders to help maintain and strengthen the Houston Area Women's Center's operations. We are pleased to be celebrating the Center's 35th year and hope to build an even stronger organization that will be here until domestic and sexual violence are history. Read more.

2011 Press Releases

Domestic Violence Awareness Month Op-ed, Houston Chronicle 10.12.2011

Systematic Changes Needed in Rape Kit Testing Process, Houston Chronicle Op-ed, 8.20.2011

Women's Center to bring Joan Rivers to Houston on for Spring Gala, May 2011

 Open letter regarding alleged gang rape of 11 year-old child in East Texas, March 16, 2011. 

2010 Releases

Recycled Rides Program and Service King select Houston Area Women's Center client to receive much-needed vehicle donation, December 2010.

 Women's Center Partners with Texas Council on Family Violence and Houston Police Department to address high rate of women killed by abusers in Harris County at first Partner to Protect Summit, Dec 9-10, 2010

 April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, Child Abuse Prevention Month. 04.01.2010