TheNetworkLaRed Endpartnerabuse

End LGBT partner abuse

Domestic violence movement, Sexual assault movement, LGBT movement

Ending violence in LGBT relationships

Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change By Beth Leventhal & Sandra Lundy, Violence in Gay & Lesbian Domestic Partnerships, By Claire Rezetti & Charles Harvey Miley, Woman-To-Woman Sexual Violence: Does She Call It Rape?, By Lori Girshick

My girlfriend did it; Voices unheard, Sisters unseen; Gender Line

The Network/La Red: Ending abuse in lesbian, bisexual women's and transgender communities
NEW Hotline 617-742-4911 voice
617-227-4911 TTY
Office 617-695-0877 v/tty
Fax 617-423-5651
PO Box 6011, Boston, MA 02114
info@thenetworklared.org
www.thenetworklared.org

Free, confidential, and bilingual services for lesbians, bisexual women, transgender folks, MTF & FTM transexuals, gender queers, intersex folks, S/M folks, and women involved with women who are concerned about their relationship, are being abused, or have been abused by a partner.

Services include:
Hotline
Talk to a trained staff person anonymously for information, safety planning, and support.

Safe Home
Confidential emergency shelter for 1-14 nights.

Advocacy
Support group, and advocates who can help with safety planning, court accompaniment, information, referral, and assistance accessing other social/legal/medical/housing services.

Organizing/Outreach
Community education through workshops, trainings, and events. Newsletter, website, and educational brochures.
Partner abuse is a recurring and chronic pattern of behaviors where one person tries to control the thoughts, beliefs, or actions of their partner, someone they are dating or someone they had an intimate relationship with.

Partner abuse is also called domestic violence, battering, and/or intimate partner abuse.

Those who abuse may use a number of behaviors to control their partner including:

Emotional Abuse: verbal abuse, lying, undermining self esteem, humiliation, monitoring whereabouts, threats, and/or intimidation.
Physical Abuse: pushing, hitting, punching, choking, withholding medications or hormones, sleep deprivation.
Sexual Abuse: rape, forcing sex and/or sex with others, exposure to HIV or sexually transmitted infections.
Economic Abuse: controlling money & resources, forcing to live above means, stealing, identity theft.
Cultural/Identity Abuse: threat of outing

Volunteers
Safe Home Providers
Community members needed statewide to provide 1-14 nights emergency shelter in their homes. A sleep sofa or a spare room will be a safe space for someone fleeing abuse. You provide some emotional support and meals in the evening and we will work the person on their immediate needs and future plans. Training, supervision, 24-hour emergency back-up, and a daily stipend are provided.

Hotline
Assist callers with emotional support, safety planning, and advocacy. Each shift in 1x a week for 6 hours and you do not need to come into an officeAyou can answer the hotline from home or school dorm.

Advocacy
Assist with court, legal advocacy, and provide
support to safe home guests and other folks we are assisting. Provide emotional support, crisis
intervention, and safety planning on the hotline.

Outreach & Education
Flyer and table at events and Pride. Develop new materials including brochures and manuals. Solicit, write articles, copy edit and