By Lindiwe Vilakazi
On the daybreak of Home Violence Consciousness Month, My Sister’s Place, a neighborhood group offering care to help victims of home violence and their kids , opened the doorways to a brand new workplace house location. The brand new web site helps the group increase its companies to supply continued shelter and home wants for these seeking to restart their lives.
To rejoice the brand new house, which can host as much as six households, My Sister’s Place, together with Amerigroup DC, held a ribbon slicing on Oct. 3. Amerigroup DC additionally introduced a $55,000 examine to assist proceed supporting the various households that stroll by way of the My Sister’s Place doorways.
“We’re standing in our new workplace house which is so crucial, particularly as inflation and housing is such a crucial problem in D.C.,” stated Mercedes Lemp, govt director of My Sister’s Place. “The primary factor for the shoppers that come to us is security and shelter. It’s dangerous sufficient having to take care of the obstacles of home violence, however then to have to do this in Washington, D.C. which is so arduous, so we’re so grateful for the help.”
Lemp highlighted the hope for folks to hunt shelter and help from My Sister’s Place to maintain security and assets with the intention to choose up the items and regain a brand new life impartial of their previously abusive circumstances. The brand new housing house consists of fashionable apartment-style items together with full kitchens, chrome steel home equipment, televisions, and extra.
Amerigroup has graciously supported My Sister’s Place’s ‘Contemporary Begin Fund,” a monetary lifeline offered to households to help well being care prices, payments, clothes, youngster care, meals, training, authorized charges, and extra. Over the previous 12 months, the ‘Contemporary Begin Fund’ has helped fulfill 700 consumer requests, totaling roughly $400,000 of funding utilized to propel households into success together with tuition funds to meet programs, laptops, clothes, and different important wants.
Jasmine Seville, well being director at Amerigroup DC, spoke to the district well being care supplier discovering the significance of supporting the assorted intersecting vulnerabilities that many purchasers are likely to expertise past bodily well being illnesses.
“Well being care is extra than simply physician’s visits, it’s additionally with the ability to display for these wants that just be sure you are holistically properly, so we’re excited to have the ability to help the Contemporary Begin Fund, and looking out ahead to what they do shifting ahead,” Seville stated.
