Emergency Food Box Program for DV Victims

Providing food support to domestic violence survivors facing challenges in regards to food security is a deterrent and can actually minimize domestic violence among women.

Many survivors exiting domestic violence relationships are reporting difficulties in accessing resources within the community, families, etc. Survivors are always concerned regarding access to food and other basic needs such as transportation, securing safe housing, employment, and affordable child care and even domestic violence shelters that provide supportive services to victims of crime and abuse.

There is a lack of both access, choice in both housing options and the communities they could move into, as well as an overall lack of stability and structure in the transition process and beyond. They also have difficulties in accessing community resources and stressed that additional resources are needed to protect domestic violence victims and their children in the community.

Sometimes victims and survivors have to move into overcrowded apartments, returned to apartment or homes where the abusive partner lives, or returned to the abusive relationship after discovering a lack of food, housing, employment, and/or monies to support themselves and children.

We provide food and other domestic violence support services to protect the lives of both women and their children so they do not return to domestic violence situations and they can be rehabilitated and reintegrated into society as safe and productive individuals.

Links:

• Organization Website