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A new domestic violence shelter in Bozeman, Montana reflects efforts nationwide to rethink the model that keeps survivors of abuse in hiding.

The long-held standard for domestic violence shelters has been to keep residents in hiding at undisclosed addresses, but domestic violence shelter directors say keeping their locations secret has gotten more

Domestic violence shelters have kept residents in hiding at undisclosed addresses to shield survivors from abusers. Now, some shelters are moving into the open.

For many years, shelters operated around the belief that secrecy keeps survivors safe from their abusers. Now some are coming out into the open.

A new domestic violence shelter in Bozeman, Montana, reflects efforts nationwide to rethink the model that keeps survivors of abuse in hiding. But there are no guidelines for bringing shelters out into the open, leaving each to make it up as they go.