Join our collaborative, community-based effort to ensure that victims of domestic violence and their children in the District of Columbia have adequate safe housing and housing support services. Our goal is to secure a Fiscal Year 2011 federal appropriation for the District of Columbia to sustain and increase capacity to meet the dire safe housing needs of victims and children.
Because the District is not a state, local officials do not have access to alternate, sustainable revenue that their counterparts in states rely upon to fund safe housing and victim services. 38 states have access to alternate, sustainable revenue. Federal lawmakers are in a position to dedicate gap funding to stabilize and increase these services in DC. This funding would reform a broken system and save lives.
Welcome to the Initiative!
Join our collaborative, community-based effort to ensure that victims of domestic violence and their children in the District of Columbia have adequate safe housing and housing support services. Our goal is to secure a Fiscal Year 2011 federal appropriation for the District of Columbia to sustain and increase capacity to meet the dire safe housing needs of victims and children.
Because the District is not a state, local officials do not have access to alternate, sustainable revenue that their counterparts in states rely upon to fund safe housing and victim services. 38 states have access to alternate, sustainable revenue. Federal lawmakers are in a position to dedicate gap funding to stabilize and increase these services in DC. This funding would reform a broken system and save lives.
We signed the "Home Should Be A Safe Place Initiative" petition!
# 242:
10:49 am PST, Nov 22,Carol Corden, New York
# 241:
7:09 pm PST, Nov 20,Tammie Hart, Maryland
# 240:
12:56 pm PST, Nov 19,Karyn Pomerantz, Maryland
# 239:
1:11 pm PST, Nov 18,Kathy Walsh, California
# 238:
9:12 am PST, Nov 18,Jennifer Vargas, Washington D.C.
# 237:
2:36 pm PST, Nov 17,Barbara Thomas, Illinois
# 236:
9:20 am PST, Nov 15,Jennifer Blomstrom, Missouri
# 235:
4:10 am PST, Nov 13,Julie Alexander, Belgium
I come from a violent home where I was sexually abused for years by my father. My mother knew but was powerless to do anything about it. There was nowhere she could go with her four children. No-one she could talk to who understood her situation. Please please help others in this and other similar situations. I might have been spared years of torture and she might now be able to stand proud rather than be riddled with guilt.
Sometimes in life we find ourselves in situations that we can not get out of without help.
# 234:
6:19 pm PST, Nov 11,Name not displayed, New Mexico
# 233:
10:17 am PST, Nov 10,Joseph Maiz, New Jersey
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# 232:
12:54 pm PST, Nov 9,Name not displayed, Washington D.C.
# 231:
1:14 pm PST, Nov 7,Dale Osterle, Illinois
# 230:
12:57 pm PST, Nov 7,Greg Martel, Illinois
# 229:
5:05 am PST, Nov 7,Jessica Korman, New York
# 228:
8:33 pm PST, Nov 5,Lisa Kays, Washington D.C.
# 227:
2:07 pm PST, Nov 5,Christina Perkins, Washington D.C.
# 226:
10:50 am PST, Nov 5,Todd Holmes, Virginia
# 225:
10:14 am PST, Nov 5,Christy Walsh, California
# 224:
9:49 am PST, Nov 5,Name not displayed, Maryland
# 223:
9:30 am PST, Nov 5,TERA GERMAN, Maryland
# 222:
9:20 am PST, Nov 5,Jan Scott, California
# 221:
9:14 am PST, Nov 5,Marvin Daehler, Massachusetts
# 220:
8:53 am PST, Nov 5,David Holmes, California
Please, please help these women and children! I know times are tough fiscally, but nothing can be tougher to be in this type of situation. A few dollars can make such a difference in their lives.
# 219:
8:20 am PST, Nov 5,Nenita Sola, Washington D.C.
# 218:
8:04 am PST, Nov 5,Richard S. Bogartz, Massachusetts
Just do it.
# 217:
7:59 am PST, Nov 5,Patricia White Holmes, California
The "system" should never have been broken in the first place. We should all be ashamed that it is - it's OUR system after all! United we stand - divided we fall. If ever there was a time for uniting - this is it!
# 216:
7:48 am PST, Nov 5,Beck Fuhriman, California
# 215:
2:25 pm PST, Nov 4,Tom Gill, Virginia
# 214:
9:35 am PST, Nov 4,Mary Ober, Virginia
# 213:
8:15 am PST, Nov 4,Kimberly Myers, Washington D.C.
# 212:
7:55 am PST, Nov 4,Allison Clausen, Washington D.C.
# 211:
6:13 pm PST, Nov 3,Mimi Reid, Arizona
# 210:
4:04 pm PST, Nov 3,Karen Conroe, California
It's disgraceful that our nation's capitol is treated like a second-class budget citizen.
# 209:
3:38 pm PST, Nov 3,Nancy Wall, Arizona
# 208:
2:10 pm PST, Nov 3,Patricia A. Kenny, Maryland
Thank you for your excellent efforts on behalf of those who cannot help themselves enough to feel safe at what should be HOME; a fearful life goes against any chance for whole healthfulness.
# 207:
2:01 pm PST, Nov 3,Shin Fujiyama, Virginia
# 206:
1:02 pm PST, Nov 3,Elisabeth Crum, Washington D.C.
# 205:
1:00 pm PST, Nov 3,DC NOW, Washington D.C.
# 204:
10:18 am PST, Nov 3,Silviya Stanton, Virginia
# 203:
10:17 am PST, Nov 3,Ted Stanton, Virginia
# 202:
9:46 am PST, Nov 3,Cosmo Fujiyama, Virginia
ABSOLUTELY, YES! HOME SHOULD BE A SAFE PLACE! - Cosmo Fujiyama
