April Update from the Team
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for your patience in waiting for the promised update.
We have a new website and are no longer affiliated or connected in any capacity to the old site. Our new website is made up of the same team, with the same mission, purpose, and a bigger vision.
advocatesforthetruth.com
When we created the hotline on March 24, 2023, we did not foresee the volume of calls and what this month would bring. Sheri Autrey, Cynthia Liles, and myself are working around the clock pro bono.
The current number of perpetrators from the hotline is 250+. The hotline is 24/7, completely confidential, and Cynthia Liles is doing all of the intake to do right by each survivor.
Sheri, Cynthia and I have exciting news regarding two non-profits we have partnered with for the healing of survivors at no charge to survivors.
Today we are announcing our partnership with Little Hooves and Big Hearts, an equine therapy retreat center. The first camp has been generously donated in full by an anonymous outside donor. It is scheduled for Fall of 2023. This program will be comprehensive and continuous for survivors completely free of charge.
Please email advocatesforthetruth@gmail.com, or call the hotline so we can begin to connect you with the intake experts at Little Hooves and Big Hearts.
Here is the link for donations to support ongoing camps and therapy for survivors. All donations will be made to Little Hooves and Big Hearts directly, are tax deductible, and all proceeds will go directly to benefit survivors.
https://littlehooves.org/giving/
In addition, we have partnered Fund Recovery https://www.fundrecovery.org/about. This incredible non-profit has created a separate fund that will link victims to the proper provider (from in-patient to weekly therapy) per their geographic location. This fund will be up and running by early next week!
Advocates For The Truth is in the process of setting up their own non-profit organization to promote the investigative and legal arm on behalf of survivors and provide additional therapy options for survivors. More news to follow by May 5, 2023.
Facing these survivor stories, witnessing the survivors' bravery, and seeing the lack of accountability and continued perpetuation of criminal acts is devastating, and we ask that you continue to try and create safety for these brave survivors. We urge you to continue to have conversations with your children, Elders, Workers, and Overseers and encourage alleged perpetrators to turn themselves in. Words do not equal action. If there isn’t proper articulation for criminal behavior it promotes a lack of transparency, safety, and the survivors and the community will not be able to heal.
Please consider visiting this site in how to articulate abuse, how to listen to survivors, and how to speak to one another: https://www.rainn.org/TALK
This is just the beginning. We plan on partnering with other organizations, creating more partnerships, and joining forces with other international advocates who have been doing this work for years.
Thank you for waiting for this all of this to come to fruition. Please consider donating to one these organizations in support of each survivor's healing.
Thank you to each of you for your bravery, kindness, empathy, and support of one another. Each survivor that has come forward has shown the power of stepping into justice. We will continue to push forward and hold each perpetrator accountable with the support of advocates and law enforcement.
A gentle reminder of the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Call or text the lifeline by dialing 988 in the US, or live chat at 988lifeline.org/chat
More soon…
Warm Regards,
Lauren Rohs, Sheri Autrey, Cynthia Liles
advocatesforthetruth.com
