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Why We’re Here
As a woman veteran and community advocate, Renetta Cheston understands firsthand the challenges many women face while navigating transition, trauma, instability, and rebuilding after hardship.
Through lived experience, advocacy, and grassroots outreach, she founded Refuge Women’s Transition Center to help create compassionate pathways toward stabilization, healing, dignity, and long-term empowerment for women and families in need.
The organization was built from both service and experience recognizing that many women, particularly women veterans and survivors of hardship, are often left unseen, unsupported, and underserved while carrying invisible burdens while attempting to rebuild their lives.
Refuge Women’s Transition Center was founded with the belief that support should be rooted in compassion, dignity, understanding, and community. The mission is to stand in the gap for women and families facing crisis, instability, recovery, or transition by helping provide advocacy, stabilization support, community resources, and pathways toward restoration and self-sufficiency.