Cherokee Family Violence Center Receives $100,000 Grant

The Cherokee Family Violence Center has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Avon to continue its quest to raise awareness of and fight domestic violence.

The one-year grant from the Avon Speak Out Against Domestic Violence Program will enable the local organization to partner with Doraville-based Caminar Latino, Inc. to provide outreach to victims through a media campaign (#NoMasMiedo or #NoMoreFear), to fund follow-up services for victims and to educate women in the community about their rights as victims of crime.

The program will focus on outreach to Latina populations and other women who are uninsured and from low income households.

“We are excited about this new partnership with the Avon Foundation and Caminar Latino,” said Meg Rogers, executive director of Cherokee Family Violence Center. “In receiving these funds, CFVC will be able to launch a social media campaign that will help us raise awareness about available resources such as the statewide Spanish hotline, dispel commonly held myths and increase access to safety for thousands of Latina victims of domestic violence in Georgia.”

The findings of the Avon Foundation-funded NO MÁS Study, the most comprehensive study of domestic violence and sexual assault in the U.S. Latina community to date, was the driving force behind getting the grant up and running. 

The study uncovered that 41 percent of Latinas believe that fear of deportation is the number one barrier preventing victims from seeking help, followed by fear of more violence for themselves and their families (39 percent) and fear of children being taken away (39 percent).

The new grants were launched in conjunction with “DECIMOS NO MÁS,” a new groundbreaking national awareness campaign launched in November that aims to engage Latinas to end domestic violence and sexual assault by providing unique bilingual resources and educational assets to the public, including web-based resources like tip sheets and conversation starters, infographics, and radio and television public service announcements.

Cherokee Family Violence Center was a natural partner for the grant, as the agency runs Georgia’s 24-hour Spanish Language Domestic Violence Hotline.

For more information on NO MÁS, visit www.nomore.org/nomas.

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