Finding Our Voices is a safe and confidential place. No survivor reaching out to us is ever asked or encouraged to speak publicly about their experience.
We do not find housing or jobs.
If you are in danger and/or need immediate help we suggest you call 911 or the Maine 24/7 confidential helpline run by the MCEDV at 1 866-834-4357.
The support, love, and acceptance I am getting from Finding Our Voices is beyond anything I have ever known. They are truly a group of angels.
– Maine survivor
Year after year in Maine, for decades, half of all homicides stem from domestic violence. Also for decades domestic abuse has been in the shadows, breeding shame, isolation, and fear.
It is time to do something different. Finding Our Voices is that change.
We are boldly opening eyes, minds, and hearts across Maine to the domestic abuse raging all around us with ground-breaking public campaigns including in schools, and with life-saving and life-altering support programs bringing the issue and its victims INTO THE LIGHT —for safety, justice, personal healing, and systemic change.
Finding Our Voices is building, and providing loving peer-support to, a community of domestic abuse survivors all across our state. We are working to remove the isolation and shame that keep women and children trapped in misery and danger, while providing hope and meaningful resources for the all-important crossover from survivor to thriver.
Emergency Funding
Microgrants for shelter, transportation, legal help, home security devices, phones
Donated Dental Care
40 Maine dentists are restoring smiles and lives, fixing damage from both physical and emotional abuse
Weekly, online Support Group
"A safe space when it feels like nothing will feel safe again."
Healing Together Retreats
Memoir writing, yoga, nature journaling, and personal safety
Our Founder and CEO
In 2016, Patrisha's celebrity husband was arrested for domestic violence. The worldwide headlines broadcasting her 29-year secret were mortifying. But locally in Patrisha’s hometown of Camden, Maine, women all around her let her know Me Too and THIS is what sparked Finding Our Voices.
