DV LEAP submits input to the un report on violence against women in the context of the climate crisis
On March 31, 2022 DV LEAP submitted input to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women for an upcoming UN report on violence against women in the context of the climate crisis.
Our submission focuses on the intersection of domestic violence and climate change in the U.S., and how extreme weather and other climate changed-related stressors further imperil survivors' health and safety.
Click here to read the letter.
DV LEAP Letter to WHITE HOUSE GENDER POLICY COUNCIL
On September 30, 2021 DV LEAP sent a letter Rosie Hidalgo, the Senior Advisor on Gender-Based Violence and
Special Assistant to the President, White House Gender Policy Council and Caroline Bettinger-López, the Special Advisor,
White House Gender Policy Council to request that the U.S. National Action Plan to end gender-based violence
acknowledge the impact of climate change on gender-based violence/domestic violence and integrate actions to reduce it.
Click here to read the letter.
DV LEAP Letter to the biden-harris administration
On December 23, 2020 DV LEAP sent a letter to the new Biden-Harris administration asking them to release a statement acknowledging the impact climate change has on domestic violence; and catalogue and expand existing data and policy interventions addressing climate change and domestic violence.
Click here to read the letter.
DV LEAP Letter to Washington DC Commission on Climate Change and Resiliency
On December 7, 2020 DV LEAP sent a letter to the Washington DC Commission on Climate Change and Resiliency asking them to issue a statement acknowledging the impact climate change has on domestic violence. Specifically, how this will effect the District and it's population. We are asking them to collaborate with DV LEAP to be a champion for survivors. Click here to read the letter. We additionally sent a similar letter on September 10, 2020, click here to read the letter.
Leo Santana, a student attorney in the UDC Legislation Clinic, represented DV LEAP and provided testimony at the Climate Change Resiliency meeting in 2020. His testimony can be read here.
Current laws and policies in most jurisdictions address domestic violence and climate change. Few laws or policies, however, recognize the intersection of these two issues. Even fewer empower survivors to be involved in the process of addressing this growing reality. Click here to read a document that provides an overview of opportunities to develop thoughtful law and policy in the District that addresses this intersection moving forward.
Heal With Us
On April 22, 2020, in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, DV LEAP launched the DV LEAF Healing Project.
Participants were able to honor a loved one and plant a tree in her/his honor.
DV LEAF
Honorees
2020 Honorees
Jennifer Broome
Nancy Sue Wood
Barbara Blades
Kent Crago
Julie & Michael Henszey
David O'Keeffe & Mary Callaghan
Heather O'Keeffe
Arianna De Reus
Sallie De Reus
Taylor Heatherly
Nancy Churik Lewis
Lily Overton
Christina Marshall
Blaire Kotsikopoulos
Sara Pikofsky
Ava Baker
Ritu Cooper
Kerri Ruttenberg
Denise Chisolm
Rebecca Kjos
Wendy Blount
Malisa Brown
Kara Mann
In Memory of Barbara Myers Campbell
Lydia Spencer
Candy Fleece
Krista Vernoff
Kristine Blumensaadt
Karen Katulka
Lee Ann De Reus
Dorothy Crago
Ann Robinson
Kim Bearden
Elise Mullins
In Memory of Deena Kaplan
In Memory of Billie Seeman
Mery Seeman-Sokal
Charlotte Mullins
Lisa Fetchko
Betsy Fetchko
Polly Chamberlain
Tami Hinish
Abigail Spencer
Emily Osgood
Elizabeth Swize
Evelyn Becker
Sherri Hahn
Eunice Drobnick
Lisa
Christina
Katherine
Mike
Adriana
Jean F. Rizzo
Patty Rizzo
Kamy English
Carolyn Olvera
Smaranda Padeanu
Rita Mellon
Lisa Kaufman
Nitza Hartung
Odelya Kaufman
Anne Kaufman
Lee-Anna Caccioppo
In Memory of Sharon Hanley-Decoste
In Memory of David Geoffrey Decoste
In Memory of Michael David Decoste
In Memory of Robert G. Dickie
In Memory of Ann Cory
Susan Levine
Paula Levine
Barbara Aschheim
Nancy Paul
Lisa Levine
Claudia Perez
Cecily Burke
Isabel Albisu
Dionne Sparkman
Roberta Rothman
Jackie Kane
Sherri Becker
Glenda Bensussen
Chris Friedman
In Honor of Elaine Eines
In Memory of Flora Kaufman
Alona Magidova
Arlene Prater
Asli Carome
Ava Jason
Beth Faber Jacobs
Betsy Dinger
Caroline Christen
Carolyn and Jack Sparks
Cynthia Wakeman
Dottie Carpenter
Elisabeth Sochacki
Grace Moore
Greer Knopf
Greta Lander
Hillary Messenger
In Honor of the Working Mothers at Arnold & Porter
Jahn Geddes
Penny Robiner
Jeanne Hardy
Sonia Lander
Jennifer Cave
Susan Boyle
Joonhee Kang
Suzanne Dinger
Karen Jodoin
Karen W. Jason
Kathleen McCarthy
Kim Forrester
Kristen Smith
Laura Sochacki
Lindsey Kleyn
LuAnn Bowes
Mary Jane Bowes
Mary Kleyn
Monica Kim
Nadira Clarke
Nancy Greenberg
Alice Dinger
Heidi Rafferty
Jenine Filipelli-Vosburgh
2021 Honorees
In Memory of Nora Seavers
Debbie Heim
Reid Christen
Susan Acton
Cara Wilking
Odelya Kaufman
Lisa Kaufman
Nitza Hartung
Lulu Delgado
Maddox Delgado
Isaiah Delgado
Aimee Delgado
Lizzy Vogel
Christian Delgado
Lisa Dee Port White
Susan Q. Port
Dina Roth Port
Smaranda Padeanu
Rita Mellon
Sorcha Mellon
Allison Luzwick
Sofia Rivera
Nancy Sue Wood
Kamy English
Patty Rizzo
Nicky Patel
In Memory of Marguerite Conrad
Bita Hadjimichael
In Memory of Martin Moran
Lori Talagala
Sonia Prelat
In Memory of Michele Quiles
In Memory of Angelina Quiles
Kathleen Hammond
Kathleen O'Brien
Mae Buckley
Judy McCall
Elizabeth Swize
Denise Chisolm
Angela Lesnak
Lisa Furby
Ritu Cooper
Sara Pikofsky
Sallie De Reus
Lee Ann De Reus
Megan Simpson
Lucy Gorgo Trongone
Paula Brown
Gloria Sabater
Carol Lowry Pate
Jennifer Pedri
Denise Foster
Amy Goldman
Rita Sirota
Barbara Blades
In Memory of Menya Sirota
Jean Rizzo
In Memory of Rose Rizzo
In Memory of Kathryn Foley
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IF YOU ARE IN IMMEDIATE DANGER, CALL 9-1-1
For anonymous, confidential help, 24/7, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline
at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE)
- Abusers can monitor your computer use by accessing your Internet history, or by use of a program that logs your every keystroke and is nearly impossible for the user to notice on their computer.
- There are ways to delete internet history in your browser settings. Learn more.
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