“The fund helps with food, medical and therapy bills, rent or hotel money, clothes. Jamieson said she is approached by people asking for referrals for themselves or someone they know to get help through FOV’s Get Out and Stay Out Fund. For 29 years I didn’t see it it’s like Stockholm Syndrome.” Because when you’re in it, you don’t see what they see everything is turned around for you. just today someone here in Boothbay Harbor asked for a poster for their business restroom and told us about a family member who has been living in a domestic violence situation for 30 years,” McLean said. “The best thing family, friends and neighbors can do is not judge. McLean feels this is an important step: A lot of women living in domestic violence situations are often accompanied by their abuser in public and cannot stop to read one of the posters.Īnd there are more women and children living in these households than you might think: It is still here – including the Boothbay Region.
Those posters are 11” x 16” and 8 1/2” x 11.” They are made for businesses with little to no window space, and can go in dressing rooms and restrooms. Now it’s time to take this campaign deeper and broader and that’s why we have the two smaller size posters.” We’ve gone through seven designs since we started three summers ago, and I still see the original ones in places. But, right now people are telling us they are seeing the posters in this or that town, so I feel like this has been an effective campaign. That’s why the original posters, the Women In Windows, were so large. “I wanted to bring (domestic violence) into the light for everyone to see – big, bold and beautiful. Just say something to someone you trust,’” McLean said. “The problem is the shame, the stigma, and (domestic violence is) a dark subject, but what we’re saying is, ‘Come into the light, when you get out it can be beautiful. And McLean has presented a slide show and talk on the exhibit at Maine Correctional Center: Women’s Center Prison in Windham.įorty-three women in two and a half years have chosen to use their hard-won freedom to speak out, to shine a light on their experience, and to share, in just one or two sentences what their lives had been like. The exhibit has traveled from the library to the Holocaust and Human Rights Center in Augusta this fall.
#MY CHECKBOOK FACTORY WINDOWS#
Since that event, McLean said, 3,000 of those posters have been displayed in the windows of businesses in over 65 towns statewide. Their photographs, taken by photojournalist McLean, were accompanied by the power and control wheel, a tool domestic violence agencies use to diagram the tactics an abuser uses in a relationship. McLean launched Finding Our Voices in 2019 with a multi-media event at Camden Public Library through the use of photographs of 14 Maine women, domestic violence survivors, who, like McLean, were willing to put themselves out there as a beacon of hope to those still living in the darkness of abuse, power and control exerted over them and their children. In Maine, over 75% of domestic violence victims who are killed are killed when or after they leave the abuser. In 2006, a domestic assault occurred every 90 minutes in Maine, according to Department of Public Safety in 2006. In the six hours they were doing so, 2.5 domestic violence assault calls were reported to Maine police every two hours and 22 minutes, based on Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence statistics. Finding Our Voices President Patrisha McLean and local FOV volunteer Eve Jamieson were distributing and hanging posters at businesses in Boothbay Harbor on Aug.
0 kommentar(er)
