The group helped develop a system in the county that rotates the issuing of protection orders among judges so no one judge must handle all of the protections orders. Representatives of Daybreak are willing to assist victims in filling out the protection order at the court clerk's office, and then a computer chooses which judge will hear the case and issue the order. Occasionally judges are still reluctant to issue protections orders. Housing Jan Ingle contends that the most persistent problem for victims of domestic violence in Daybreak's service area is finding affordable housing once they leave their abusers and leave the shelter. Daybreak has a transitional house with two apartments available, however those two apartments are not enough to house all the women that need a place to live when they leave their abusers.
Many women return to their abusers for financial reasons, especially when children are involved.
Lack of affordable childcare is another problem for abused women with children who leave their abusive situation. Most of the women also refuse to prosecute their abuser, either from fear of retaliation or fear of the legal system. Because Daybreak can concentrate its services to a one-county area, the center is able to develop lasting relationships with the local agencies that serve and protect the victims of domestic violence in their area. Although many of the programs we visited had developed strong ties in the community in which their shelters were actually located, the same programs all had problems in reaching victims of domestic violence in their out-lying service areas, and developing strong relationships with law enforcement and judges in these areas. Jan Ingle suggested that victims might be best served if each county or judicial circuit had its own shelter, either an individual program serving in each county or a separate satellite shelter for each county served by a multiple-county program.