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DOGE Cuts Come for N.C. Domestic Violence Orgs
As the Trump administration targets the funding streams that shelters and service agencies rely on, providers wonder how they will keep going: ‘This isn’t something we’re going to bake sale our way out of.’
by Janine Latus
May 21, 2025
Erin Passailaigue glances at the boxes in the entryway of the Safe from Abuse and Family Education office, or SAFE, in Lenoir County, which provides intimate partner violence services for both Lenoir and Greene counties. There’s a cabbage in one box. A carton of eggs in another.
Some people stop at the Kinston location to donate, while others come by and take what they need: clothing, sheets and blankets, used bath towels, stuffed animals. They’re things most of us barely think about, but that people running from an abuser often leave behind and must now replace as they build new lives.
As SAFE’s executive director, Passailaigue spends long days working as a bridge between her clients’ old lives and the hoped-for new ones.
“We’re not just a Band-Aid,” she said. “We really try to give them the opportunity to completely change their lives and to give them the grace and space to do so.”
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https://www.theassemblync.com/health/nc-domestic-violence-funding-cuts-trump-doge/
by Janine Latus
May 21, 2025
Erin Passailaigue glances at the boxes in the entryway of the Safe from Abuse and Family Education office, or SAFE, in Lenoir County, which provides intimate partner violence services for both Lenoir and Greene counties. There’s a cabbage in one box. A carton of eggs in another.
Some people stop at the Kinston location to donate, while others come by and take what they need: clothing, sheets and blankets, used bath towels, stuffed animals. They’re things most of us barely think about, but that people running from an abuser often leave behind and must now replace as they build new lives.
As SAFE’s executive director, Passailaigue spends long days working as a bridge between her clients’ old lives and the hoped-for new ones.
“We’re not just a Band-Aid,” she said. “We really try to give them the opportunity to completely change their lives and to give them the grace and space to do so.”
Snip...
https://www.theassemblync.com/health/nc-domestic-violence-funding-cuts-trump-doge/