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 girl experiencing home violence. Colin, an advocate for The Hotline, listened. Like many survivors, the caller sought assets for shelter, monetary help, and emotional help for herself and her kids. Her name was simply one of many 1,503 calls The Hotline answered that day. Nonetheless, 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 USA through reside name, chat, and textual content (known as contacts). Demand for The Hotline’s providers continues to develop exponentially, pushed partially by the lingering impacts of COVID-19, and continues dangers created by systemic points like firearms within the palms of abusive companions, the overturning of Roe v Wade, and assaults on immigration and marginalized communities. 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 help.
The Hotline’s mission is to shift energy again to these impacted by relationship abuse. Since 1996, The Hotline has saved its traces open 24/7 for anybody who wants help, and 7 million individuals have related 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 USA. 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. By means of 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 reside providers offered through telephone, chat, and textual content. The Hotline envisions a world the place all relationships are constructive, wholesome, and free from violence.
In case you or somebody you realize is experiencing relationship abuse in any kind, assist is offered — textual content START to 88788, name 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or chat on-line at TheHotline.org. You aren’t alone.
