Independence Skills For Survivors Of Domestic Violence

A billboard helps to raise community awareness.

Domestic violence continues to plague our society, and with a offical due to enter the White House, who is reported to have battered one of his wives, there is no more appropriate time to consider how a woman in that situation can disengage from that kind of dangerous relationship. Located in Detroit, MI, SISTERS ACQUIRING FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT (SAFE) helps women overcome financial issues that keep them in these toxic relationships.



Offered free of charge to victims of domestic violence, SAFE provides training sessions at public libraries and hospitals, along with domestic violence shelters, in the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be able to begin to function independently, while also helping the women maintain personal safety. Classes come in one-hour modules and cover such topics as Job Skills, Resume Creation, Interviewing Skills, Entrepreneurship, Customer Service, Personal Finances, Networking, Basic Employment Law 101.

The organization also holds Resource Fairs, the last one in October, that provides 100 women with pampering, useful resources, food, and much more. The location is confidential to maintain the women's safety. The location is revealed only at the time that the women register. At this last fair, a drawback was that there were no child care services available.

From the Purple Purse Challenge.

SAFE has recently launched the Allstate Purple Purse Challenge, for the purpose of raising funds for a building to house a dedicated training facility, then to expand its programs, to provide community awareness events, and to provide for the needs of domestic violence survivors. There are specific items that are provided for each donation level. $25 gives one survivor a custom micro-entrepreneurial training manual and a budgeting workbook; $100 gives two survivors one month bus access to Detroit's buses for their travel needs; $1,100 provides one SAFE trainer with a laptop computer, a projector, and wireless internet access, enough for weekly community workshops for 20 survivors.

From the survey campaign.

A survey was being conducted by the Detroit Economic Security Listening Project from November 14 to December 15 (each survey took about ten minutes), especially to add the voices of African, African American, Arab, Asian, and Latina women into the conversation about shaping Detroit's future. The survey was designed to make Detroit better and SAFE was urging those they serve to participate.

Thanks for information from this article on SAFE: http://www.newsafestart.org/about.html; this announcement on SAFE: http://www.newsafestart.org/safes-resource-fair.html; this announcement on SAFE: http://www.newsafestart.org/purple-purse-challlenge.html; and this Constant Contact announcement: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Survey-on-economic-struggles---success-of-Detroit-women.html?soid=1101638673428&aid=Pa-XV1Wm2u0.

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