PUBLIC AWARENESS
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. I can’t tell you how much that validation meant to me.
Posters
Our groundbreaking award-winnning poster and bookmark campaign features the faces and voices of 48 Maine women survivors aged 18 to 85 and including Governor Janet T. Mills. Our survivor-stars have have gone a long way to smash the stereotype of domestic abuse and get rid of misplaced shame in 100 Maine towns.
Click here to see all 24 of the posters, and let us know if you can help us bring them to your Maine town.
Finding Our Voices traveled to South Berwick in March after 37-year-old Sherri Sweet was shot in the back of her head in her home, with her boyfriend charged with the murder and two little boys now motherless.
Let’s Talk About It Tour
Survivors of domestic abuse have been publicly sharing our stories and leading community conversations through the "Let's Talk About It!" tour that launched in October 2023 at the Scarborough Public Library. Our panel discussions in more than 50 towns included men talking about growing up in domestic violence that broke attendance records at the Camden Public Library. Come see and hear us in October at the Brooklin and Deer Isle public libraries and at Hidden Barn Books in Bar Harbor!
Bath, May 2025
Maine Irish Heritage Center, October 2024
Camden Public Library, November 2023
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!
Brunswick, Mother’s Day Weekend 2025
Kerry Smith was the best friend of Jennie Bailey who was killed by her father along with her mother Lisa in a double murder homicide in Bath in October, 2024. Kerry helped organize a Finding Our Voices Mother's Day Weekend of events to honor Jennie and Lisa and the other women killed in domestic violence. More than 75 of us gathered from across the state to hold up signs in the pouring rain in Brunswick about we wanted the public to know.
State House in Augusta, February 2025
Lewiston, Valentine’s Day 2025
Patrisha and Lewiston’s mayor Carl L. Sheline holding Dezarae’s Finding Our Voices poster with Dezarae.
Sanford, January 2025
On the day that State Rep Lucas Lanigan was indicted on charges of strangling his wife, Finding Our Voices got loud in Sanford about the outrage of him STILL serving as that district's State Rep.
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. He was released from custody on this early-release program in February, and in April he met Virginia. She was dead in October.
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 relatable peer-to-peer campaigns on what is and what is not love.
Survivor Voices
Thank you for making us feel safe while uplifting our voices. — Laura Biscula
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. Watch NewsCenter Maine piece
Misogyny runs through the Great American Songbook straight through 100 years. Here is a shocking, infuriating selection in four radio programs put together by Resa Randolph. Resa is singer/songwriter who hosts The Orange Blossom Special bluegrass show on Belfast Community Radio