“For me,” Hacskaylo said, “it’s been this total paradigm shift, because I’ve worked in shelter and transitional housing my whole career.” She says basically, the money they can offer helps a survivor avoid homelessness as a result of private violence. But the resilience fund has proven to Hacskaylo that conventional wisdom isn’t always necessarily true, that survivors don’t want to leave their communities, and many don’t even want to be cut off from their abusers. They want to be safe, but they also want their children to have both parents in their lives, so the fund provides them with a way
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