Tell your story: Sign up for End the Silence 2027!
If you’ve survived intimate-partner violence, sexual assault, sex trafficking, and/or stalking, and you’re interested in sharing your story with others – to help end the stigma around relationship violence, and/or to help yourself in healing – sign up to join the next cohort of Haven’s survivor story-sharing program: End the Silence.
The next End the Silence group begins Jan. 6 and involves 13 weeks of working with a writing coach in the group, as well as a storytelling event in Bozeman in late March.
Haven started End the Silence in 2015-16, after hearing from survivors who wanted to tell their stories safely and publicly. The program aims to:
Reduce the stigma around domestic violence, a public-health epidemic that for many years was treated as a private family matter
Educate the community by putting real people and their first-person narratives in front of the statistics (one in seven people nationwide, or 20,000 people in Gallatin County alone, face intimate-partner violence)
Mobilize our community to end domestic violence, sex trafficking, and stalking
If you’re interested in learning more, please email Haven’s prevention coordinator by Dec. 10.