FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 13, 2024
CONTACT: Lynn Brewer; [email protected]
Austin, TX – On March thirteenth at 8:11AM CDT, a name got here into the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline (The Hotline) from a New York-based lady experiencing home violence. Colin, an advocate for The Hotline, listened. Like many survivors, the caller sought assets for shelter, monetary assist, and emotional help for herself and her kids. Her name was simply one of many 1,503 calls The Hotline answered that day. Nevertheless, her name marked a very sobering milestone: the 7 millionth contact to The Hotline since its inception in 1996.
The Hotline is the one 24/7 hotline particularly devoted to these impacted by relationship abuse in the US by way of dwell name, chat, and textual content (known as contacts). Demand for The Hotline’s companies continues to develop exponentially, pushed partially by the lingering impacts of COVID-19. It took 2,720 days to reply the primary million calls, whereas sadly it took solely 784 to reply this newest million. The Hotline is seeing the very best wants for these impacted by relationship abuse to be housing, monetary help and authorized assist.
The Hotline’s mission is to shift energy again to these impacted by relationship abuse. Since 1996, The Hotline has stored its strains open 24/7 for anybody who wants help, and 7 million folks have linked with its advocates to obtain validation, connection to assets, and hope for a safer future.
The Hotline is utilizing this second in its historical past to name for even better change in the US. Home violence is a public well being disaster, and we should reply accordingly. Our households, faculties and communities are deeply impacted and but assets and help for survivors and their households proceed to be missing. Via its storytelling marketing campaign “I Am 7 Million” will highlight the experiences of survivors and name on Congress, firms, church buildings, and neighborhood results in do extra to finish home violence.
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The Nationwide Home Violence Hotline (The Hotline) established in 1996, serves these impacted by relationship abuse within the U.S. 24/7 with free and confidential dwell companies supplied by way of telephone, chat, and textual content. The Hotline envisions a world the place all relationships are constructive, wholesome, and free from violence.
In the event you or somebody you recognize is experiencing relationship abuse in any type, assist is obtainable — textual content START to 88788, name 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or chat on-line at TheHotline.org. You aren’t alone.
