A crisis can touch every area of your life and make it difficult to do things like find housing, arrange transportation, make medical and dental appointments, and purchase basics necessities to start over. Contact one of our advocates for support at 800-974-3359. #SAAM2023

Foster or transport pets of victim-survivors of domestic violence at NO COST to you! 🌟
Support MN Pet Coalition’s mission to remove barriers that prevent victim-survivors of DV from seeking safety by signing up today: tinyurl.com/ApplyMNPC

#fosterpet #twincities #community

Learn about multiple forms of oppression and how they have been built into our systems. In 'Building Connected Communities', we make connections between factors that contribute to violence to understand how all forms of violence are related. #SAAM2024
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The Relationship Safety Alliance (a member program of Violence Free Minnesota) joined Lakeland PBS to discuss the importance of the #DVCounts Report! Tune in and learn more about the essential work they're doing to support survivors in Minnesota: bit.ly/43MXz9H

Esperanza United joins forces with nearly 50 Latino and Latina leaders from across the nation to sign an Open Letter, featured in The Baltimore Sun, paying tribute to the dedicated men we tragically lost on the Baltimore Key bridge. Full letter: drive.google.com/file/d/10marf2…

'We need to teach people that violence against women, or anyone really, is simply unacceptable.'

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'The 33-year-old won an appeal after judges found that an erroneous jury instruction may have swayed the verdict. Her case has since gained the support of some of the nation's leading scholars on DV.'

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'She was proud of who she was, she was everything that you would have wanted your friends, your relatives, your niece, your daughter to be, until she wasn't,” Jana Williams said.' Native women deserve better. Allison Lussier deserved better.

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This session, our administration is pushing to provide additional funding for crime victim services and supports.
 
For the health and safety of survivors, their children, and communities across Minnesota, we need to get it done.

Esperanza United, WomensLaw.org, and NNEDV
are excited to share this Snapshot of the WomensLaw Email Hotline in 2023! We helped 6,423 people in English and Spanish on the Email Hotline—more than twice as many users as served in 2022. Learn more: bit.ly/3PvkyQB

Pets are often used as leverage to keep survivors of domestic violence from leaving. But as a partner of the MN Pet Foster Coalition, we're helping break that cycle.

Offer a lifeline of support to survivors & their pets: tinyurl.com/ApplyMNPC

#supportsurvivors #twincities

Every February is our annual Teen Dating Violence Awareness poster & video contest. We will be announcing the winners of the contest over the next few days. Stay tuned to find out who won and see some of the posters and vids!

. Violence Free Minnesota has integrity - speaking truth with their whole chest in solidarity with those they serve.

Hope other orgs/nonprofits take notes; the work is to center those we serve - not donors, politicians, or those with power - but those most impacted & most marginalized.