SISTER SUPPORT
Finding Our Voices is filling in the gaps across Maine with innovative, survivor-informed, and quick-response programs that empower our sisters to escape danger and misery, get back on their feet and rebuild their lives plus provide stability for their children, and heal.
If you are a low-income Maine woman seeking help for dental problems that stem from abuse by an intimate partner, and are unable to afford treatment, please fill out this form.
Access to Donated Dental Care
Financial Assistance
Our Get Out Stay Out Fund provides financial assistance to low-income Maine women for critical items to escape danger from an intimate partner including expenses for shelter, car, legal, home security, utilities, and phones. This is mostly through referral from a caseworker.
We DO NOT find housing or jobs.
If you are escaping abuse or within a year of having escaped and rebuilding your life and need financial help with either of these, please click here.
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.
To apply click here.
Legal help: We can recommend lawyers, and are sometimes connect survivors with low cost and pro-bono legal services. We sometimes are able to help with legal fees.
Healing Together Workshops & Retreats
“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, and songwriting.
Apply here for our June Healing Through Memoir retreat.
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.
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.
Power & Control Wheels
The Power and Control wheel was developed in the 1980s by the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs in Duluth MN.
Customizing your own Power and Control wheel can be helpful for you to process your experiences and better understand the patterns of domestic abuse.
Click here to earn more about the wheels, see examples from survivors, and customize your own.