RESOURCES
Finding Our Voices is filling in the gaps across our State to empower Maine women domestic abuse survivors to escape danger and misery from an intimate partner, get on their feet, and provide stability for their children.
We are all about collaboration, working with partners across Maine including homeless shelters, Behavioral Health and Recovery caseworkers, New Hope Midcoast domestic abuse agency, and therapists.
We do not find housing or jobs.
Financial Assistance
Our Get Out Stay Out Fund provides one-time financial assistance for critical items to escape danger from an intimate partner including for shelter, car and legal expenses, home security and utilities, and phones. This is mostly through referral from a caseworker. please click here to send us a message about this.
Children's Fund: We provide joy and comfort to youth traumatized by domestic abuse with gifts their moms do not have the money to provide, including art, music and theater camp, driver's ed, grooming shears for an 11-year-old to take care of her pet dog, musical instruments, sports equipment, back to school clothes, birthday parties, and Christmas presents.
Access to Donated Dental Care
Finding Our Smiles is the only program in the U.S. donating dental care solely for women domestic abuse survivors, and fixing damage from emotional as well as physical abuse.
Our generous volunteers include general dentists, oral surgeons, orthodontists, prosthodontists, endodontists and dental labs, all donating their skills, talents, and time to restore smiles, health, and confidence of Maine women survivors who otherwise could not obtain needed dental care.
If you are a Maine survivor needing help with dental problems that stem from domestic abuse, please fill out this form.
Healing Together Opportunities
“One of the most painful parts of being a survivor of abuse is spending so much time with people who don’t ‘get it.’ Being with these women gave me hope, and empowered me to share my voice with bravery and confidence. I continue to write with new-found ambition, healing more and more every time I put pen to paper.”
Finding Our Voices regularly hosts day-long and weekend retreats for women survivors that include memoir-writing and craft-making, personal safety workshops and through a collaboration with DocSong, songwriting. Because financial abuse causes many of the women most needing these retreats to have no money, our sliding scale fee starts at a refundable $50. Subscribing to our newsletter will keep you apprised of our Healing Together opportunities – Newsletter sign-up to stay apprised of these opportunities, here!
Online Support Group
“The group discussions bring up so many muddled issues to be sorted, cleaned, and healed."
For four years, we have been meeting online Mondays at 6 pm to support each other in a safe, nonjudgmental space.
Groups range from 12 to 28 women survivors. Some of us have been out for more than a decade, some are freshly out, and some are still living with their abuser. Many are moms whose exes are continuing to abuse them by weoponizing their children and the courts. More attendees than one would imagine are estranged from their adult children due to the manipulation of their ex.
If you are interested in joining us please fill out this form.
Sisterly Love
We mail out gift packets every day to our survivor sisters across Maine that include personally-inscribed books that were helpful to us during our own journeys, yellow writing journals, and our yellow power-bracelet.