Financial Abuse

In most cases of abuse, financial abuse is also present, which can make it more difficult for someone to leave or to start building a new life.

This could look like an abuser:

• Blocking access to money or assets

• Sabotaging employment opportunities

• Denying direct access to bank accounts

• Making it difficult for someone to go to school

• Ruining someone’s credit, running up large debts on joint account

• Refusing to pay bills that are in the survivors name

Survivors are often faced with questions like:

• If we leave, where will we live?

• How will I provide for the kids on my own?

• How will I manage or pay for childcare when I’m working?

• How can I get a lease when my abuser has ruined my credit?

• How can I afford to go to school so I can get a better job?

These are difficult situations to navigate. It is possible to exit abusive situations, and to build a new life after abuse. Your gifts provide a space for survivors to be in community with others who intimately understand what they are going through. It’s a place full of resources, encouragement, education, validation and HOPE.

Thank you for paving the way to futures without violence!