Dear Friends of WTLC, Love is in the air this month! No, not because Valentine’s Day is right around the corner – because our Love Is campaign is almost here! Many of you are probably already familiar with our annual Love Is fundraiser – every year, we...
Dear Friends of WTLC, For many years, WTLC has approached our domestic violence and human trafficking work with a distinct philosophy: rethink our policies that minimize barriers to our services and truly catalyze our survivor-driven advocacy. Anchored in this idea, our programmatic focus areas have inevitably intersected...
Dear Friends of WTLC, Every year, we join communities across the nation to recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. We sometimes get the question, "Do we really need a whole month dedicated to DV awareness?" It's a fair question—when the DV movement began back in the...
February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Throughout the United States, approximately 10% of adolescents reported being the victim of physical violence by an intimate partner in the last year. Unfortunately, there are many incidents that go unreported, as youth are often...
Black History Month is an annual observance that occurs every February to acknowledge and highlight the successes and innovation of Black Individuals, both from past and present. Now more than ever in the current socio-political climate, we recognize that achievements by Black individuals and communities...
Shelia was living in the great state of Texas- as she claims- when she first met Luke. He was in town for business when they struck up a conversation waiting in line to place their coffee order. What started as a quick conversation to distract...
Nearly 21 million people – three out of every 1,000 people worldwide – are victims of forced labor across the world, trapped in jobs which they were coerced or deceived into and which they cannot leave. One contributor to “forced labor” is fast fashion, which is defined as cheap,...
In July of this year, Linda and her two young children entered our emergency shelter after fleeing the depths of domestic violence. Linda had suffered physical, verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse by her partner for many years. Not knowing where to go or how to...
When you think of PTSD, who do you think of? For many of us, the first people that come to mind are combat veterans, whose past experiences of trauma continue to impact their lives every day. The US Department of Veteran Affairs published a report in...
Dear Friends of WTLC, Many of you may remember WTLC closing our Transitional Housing Program, "Second Step," in 2016 due to cuts in funding. Although we were one among several agencies who experienced the same fate, we didn't fully understand the impact this would have on survivors...
