Jessica H

Review of Domestic Abuse Intervention Se...

If I could rate lower, I would! They say they're h...

If I could rate lower, I would! They say they're helping people and I know they do, they just pick and choose who apparently. I was told by employees and volunteers since I was young in an abusive household that if I ever needed help to call them. I really thought they would help me when I was ready to leave my abuser. I was wrong! Homeless in the middle of WI winter with 2 kids and nowhere to go to escape the abuse for any of us, they turned us away. I called everyday for a month and a half and all of my requests for help were ignored. I did not even need much. To feel safe and know my kids were safe was all I needed. I drained all of my accounts to stay at hotels until I had nothing left. I can't stand hearing about what a "great" place this is because for 20 years they told me they'd help and when I was ready they were only on the other end of a phone call doing and saying nothing to help us! I'm glad I am no longer homeless but being forced to live in one of my abusers buildings so my children have a roof over thier heads, even if it's at thier own risk and expense of abuse! How is this ok or justified? How can you say you stand up for victims yet pick which ones you think need the help? How can you raise money and take donations from people yet choose who and how you want to help while you leave the rest of us to suffer and fend for ourselves? If you can't treat everyone equally, at least don't pretend that you care because it gives women false hope they have somewhere or someone to turn to for help! That obviously is NOT true!