Today, she is working on a national model (NASH—the National Alliance for Safe Housing) based on what she created at DASH. She told me that in 2013, she began a new pilot program that has changed entirely the way she thinks about surviving domestic violence. It’s called the Survivor Resilience Fund and it’s just that: a pool of money to help survivors. “The conventional wisdom is that if a victim wants to get out of a situation, then she must leave her home and uproot her family and start all over again, and that typically means going into a shelter, and then going into some other subsidized
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