Working to put an End to Domestic Violence in Wayne County
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Working to put an End to Domestic Violence in Wayne County |
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Looking
For My Sister is
a community faith-based organization dedicated to giving the power back to
the victims and survivors of domestic violence. |
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We
oppose the use of violence as a means of control over others. |
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We support equality in relationships and the concept of helping women assume power over their own lives. |
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We
strive toward becoming independent, community based groups in which
women are major policy and program decision-makers. |
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We
must work toward ending racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, classism,
and oppression of all traditionally silenced groups within the
battered women’s movement. These oppressions are perpetuated by the
same systems that profit by violence against women and their children
and cannot be separated from the overall mission of the Coalition for
the oppression of one woman is the oppression of all women. |
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We
recognize and support efforts of other agencies and individuals in
addressing all issues that help to eliminate the oppression of women
and children and the generational cycle of abuse. |
“to continue the efforts of the groundwork laid a little more than 20 years ago - to work in the direction of a society where women are protected, life is esteemed, home is sacred, fear is unknown and domestic violence is unthinkable”. Looking For My Sister is committed to developing and promoting efforts aimed at the elimination of domestic violence through faith and by taking action.
Our goal is to promote awareness by taking domestic violence facts to the streets and providing it to women, girls and families who are in the dark or ignorant to the violent behaviors surrounding domestic violence and to inform them of a system for escape. We believe we can demand change, we can influence change, and we will promote change!
Although there is no profile of the women who will be battered, there is a well documented syndrome of what happens once battering starts and Looking For My Sister seeks to be the premier provider for women who are both survivors and/or victims of domestic violence. We seek to make this experience affordable and available for all women in the community. At a difficult time in their lives, survivors and/or victims coming to Looking For My Sister for help will be able to avoid the pressure of having to contact lots of different agencies to get help which can be extremely stressful and ultimately cause discouragement.
