On the daybreak of Home Violence Consciousness Month, My Sister’s Place, a group group offering care to assist victims of home violence and their kids , opened the doorways to a brand new workplace house location. The brand new website helps the group increase its providers to supply continued shelter and home wants for these seeking to restart their lives.
To have a good time the brand new house, which is able to 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 verify to assist proceed supporting the numerous households that stroll by way of the My Sister’s Place doorways.
“We’re standing in our new workplace house which is so essential, particularly as inflation and housing is such a essential subject in D.C.,” mentioned Mercedes Lemp, government director of My Sister’s Place. “The primary factor for the purchasers that come to us is security and shelter. It’s dangerous sufficient having to cope with the limitations of home violence, however then to have to do this in Washington, D.C. which is so exhausting, so we’re so grateful for the assist.”
Lemp highlighted the hope for individuals to hunt shelter and assist from My Sister’s Place to maintain security and sources with a purpose to decide up the items and regain a brand new life unbiased of their previously abusive circumstances. The brand new housing house consists of trendy 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 assist well being care prices, payments, clothes, baby care, meals, training, authorized charges, and extra. Over the previous 12 months, the ‘Contemporary Begin Fund’ has helped fulfill 700 shopper 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 varied intersecting vulnerabilities that many consumers 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 screen for these wants that just be sure you are holistically properly, so we’re excited to have the ability to assist the Contemporary Begin Fund, and searching ahead to what they do shifting ahead,” Seville mentioned.
