Year after year in Maine, for decades, half of all homicides stem from domestic violence. Also for decades domestic abuse has been in the shadows, breeding shame, isolation, and fear.
It is time to do something different. Finding Our Voices is that change.
We are boldly opening eyes, minds, and hearts across Maine to the domestic abuse raging all around us with ground-breaking public campaigns including in schools, and with life-saving and life-altering support programs bringing the issue and its victims INTO THE LIGHT —for safety, justice, personal healing, and systemic change.
Finding Our Voices is building, and providing loving peer-support to, a community of domestic abuse survivors all across our state. We are working to remove the isolation and shame that keep women and children trapped in misery and danger, while providing hope and meaningful resources for the all-important crossover from survivor to thriver.
SINCE 2021
Get Out and Stay Out microgrants toward safety and stability for women survivors, their children, and their pets, with payments for shelter, car, legal, home security, phones.
SINCE 2022
Donated dental care to remedy physical assaults as well as forced neglect (e.g., the ex didn't "allow" the woman to brush her teeth). To date, 38 Maine dentists have restored the health, confidence, and smiles of 42 women survivors. Finding Our Smiles is the only such program in the entire country!
IN 2025
Donated legal services for child custody issues and Protection from Abuse orders. Due to financial abuse the dangerous ex-partner usually has money for lawyers while the victim does not.
SINCE 2021
The personal healing and systemic change that comes from connecting women survivors and amplifying our voices.
Our Founder and CEO
In 2016, Patrisha's celebrity husband was arrested for domestic violence. The worldwide headlines broadcasting her 29-year secret were mortifying. But locally in Patrisha’s hometown of Camden, Maine, women all around her let her know Me Too and THIS is what sparked Finding Our Voices.
