[Video Description: Greta, a white woman with long dark hair and a light blonde streak in front. She’s wearing a black shirt, gold necklaces, blue nail polish, and a nose ring. Behind her is a calm background with a picture of a sun and rays. At the top of the video, there are three logos for Deaf Wings, DeafHope, and Deaf Unity.] Our government is taking actions to undermine all aspects of our social and cultural systems built to care for people. They are systematically dismantling support for marginalized people and targeting any opposition. One example of this is withdrawing critical grant funding from nonprofits, without warning or valid reason. Another example is threatening to revoke grant funding unless organizations remove all mention of diversity, inclusion, equity and access in our materials. New grant applications explicitly say we are no longer able to do social justice work, that we cannot focus on support for immigrant communities, that we cannot have an accessibility focus. DeafHope has received federal funding for many years, which has supported our life saving services to end violence in Deaf communities. About 75% of our funding is federal. DeafHope funds have not directly been canceled by the government yet. Instead our team made a collective decision to stop accepting federal funds. We are doing this because of authoritarian government actions. Because of their specific attack on oppressed communities like transgender people. Because accepting funds means stopping all of our solidarity movement work. DeafHope can no longer be complicit by accepting federal dollars. We are following the leadership of abolitionist organizations like HEARD. We know we are...
DeafHope is excited to share a new version of our Power and Control Wheel in ASL. Click on each section for a video. If you are experiencing any of these forms of abuse, there is support for you. Contact DeafHope or the National VP Hotline. Thank you to Wenda Whalen, one of DeafHope’s founding Board members for sharing her ASL talents. Also giving thanks to Rossana Reis for designing our Deaf Power and Control Wheel. We are grateful to each survivor for sharing their story and courage, which contributed to the important information in this...
DeafHope’s #IKnowSomeone campaign has come to a close, but you still can submit videos any time. We can all help in the effort to spread awareness and support for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. You can check out our playlist with all #IKnowSomeone videos below. We send a heartfelt thank you to all the community members who participated in this important...
DeafHope is honored to work with peer DVSV organizations from around the state of California who provide services to marginalized and underserved communities. As a part of CRDVN, a project funded by the Blue Shield of California Foundation, we are working together to make sure survivors of color, undocumented, Deaf and other survivors are at the forefront of policy, funding and services. Last week CRDVN met to discuss our plans for the next six months, which include advocacy on the state level for increased funding and improved safety planning for undocumented survivors. We learned about how nonprofits can advocacy for policy change and had some fun self-care in the evening with henna! [image description: large photo on the left, group of women standing in a large room with a light wood floor, looking toward a speaker, large painted images on white paper on the floor. Bottom left, orange letters CRDVN on pink background with confetti shapes around it. bottom middle, someone getting intricate henna tattoo on their hand. top right round painted image on white paper of flowers and a river with the words returning to the root and source. middle right, painted image on white paper of green leaves, a stream and footprints with the words discovering footprints. bottom right, painted image on white paper of a large green tree with the words in the world...
