PUBLIC AWARENESS
Posters
Our groundbreaking award-winnning poster and bookmarks campaign features the faces and voices of 48 Maine women survivors, aged 18 to 85, and including Governor Janet T. Mills. Through this campaign, we have have gone a long way to smash the stereotype and get rid of misplaced shame in 100 Maine towns.
Your campaign stopped me dead in my tracks…I saw your posters in Belfast and for the first time truly recognized the abuse I endured. Thank you for validating my experience – I can’t tell you how much that acknowledgement meant to me.
Click here to see the full set of posters. Let us know if you can help us bring them to your Maine town.
Public Rallies
Finding Our Voices is getting louder by the day about the outrages around domestic violence including bailing out and releasing early from prison and jail the most dangerous members of our society. Look for us and join us in a Maine downtown near YOU in 2025!
Brunswick, Mother’s Day Weekend 2025
Augusta, February 2025
Lewiston, February 2025
On Valentine’s day, survivors brought awareness to what is not love.
Patrisha and Lewiston’s mayor Carl L. Sheline holding Dezarae’s Finding Our Voices poster with Dezarae.
Sanford, January 2025
Survivors gathered at a Finding Our Voices march in January 9 in the town whose newly-elected legislator Rep. Lucas Lanigan stands indicted for strangling his wife.
Read more at Seacoastonline.com
Bangor, October 2024
Friends, family, and co-workers of Virginia Cookson, 39-year-old mother strangled to death, joined us at a rally in Bangor days after her murder. The man charged with murdering her had been in prison for almost killing his ex-wife, and let out on an early release program.
Watch the WABI-TV coverage here
Read the Bangor Daily News article here
Youth Outreach
Finding Our Voices is in Maine high schools working with students on our own, groundbreaking peer-to-peer campaigns on what is and what is not love.
Survivor Voices
Thank you again for making us feel safe while uplifting our voices. My gratitude is beyond words.
— Laura Biscula
Laura and Amanda, victims of Corey Faulkner, break their silence in a conversation with Patrisha.
Amanda needs to co-parent with domestic violence felon Corey Faulkner. Laura is the mother of Mikayla, who was Corey’s wife when she killed herself, and maintains that the system in Maine is showing preference to this domestic felon over her in regards to the safety of her grandson.
More Voices
Maine Irish Heritage Center, October 2024
Camden Public Library, November 2023
LISTEN TO MORE SURVIVOR VOICES ON OUR YOUTUBE PAGE