Your Voice is Your Medicine - Pt 5b

What You Can Do To Help

This photo is of me and my best friend, my mother. She has been one of my
biggest supports through my recovery. It's unfortunate to think that young
girls like my age in this photo are dealing with this type of abuse. 

There is nothing I am more passionate and determined about then launching this program. I'm laying out the groundwork to structure all that I can do to make this happen. This program will require lots of research, personal interviews, and drafting up a proposal to try to get funding from the state to launch it.

The YVYM Foundation would teach and inform young girls and teenagers the importance of reporting crimes within 24 hours, the program would offer advice on how to help friends who may be victims of sex crimes, and lastly the program would offer women advocates for victims.

Women's advocacy role in helping young girls and teenagers with YVYM

Women's advocates for YVYM would work with young girls and teenagers from start to finish. Women advocates are preferred to be survivors of abuse themselves so they can offer support and friendship to victims. When victims come to YVYM they would work with one advocate who aids and supports them through the entire process from reporting the crime to the sentencing of the offender.

The goal is that through the Women's advocacy program that both the survivor and victim can help each other heal. If the women advocate's can begin to heal by knowing she has helped a victim receive the justice she may have never had.We hope that these friendships established between women and young girls will aid in women helping each other to have self worth and justice.

What it's going to take

At this point, I have no idea all of the steps I have to make with this project. However, I assure you, I'm a determined girl and I will figure it out. I plan on networking with law enforcement, strong women leaders/survivors, lawyers, state offices, similar organizations, therapists, and more. It's going to be a team effort to launch this program, but in the end the results will be well worth it.

Lastly, thank you

To those of you who have helped me, gave me support, and have been there for me I thank you. I also thank those of you who may be reading this, and hope that you will want to join me to help fight in this effort for the upcoming women in our generation.