Brooklyn Fall Fest
You’re invited to join us for a day of celebration honoring 30 years of the Jane Barker Brooklyn Child Advocacy Center (CAC). Safe Horizon’s CACs provide critical services to 12,000 children and families who have been impacted by child abuse every year. We’re thrilled to share this major milestone for our Brooklyn location with our supporters, friends, and former client families. Come learn about our services, meet the people committed…
Safe Horizon Responds to City Housing Assistance Program
We advocated for the expansion of the CityFHEPS program so that Runaway and Homeless Youth (RHY) could finally have a chance at stability and safety. But rather than expanding CityFHEPS, the final budget included a significantly scaled down housing voucher program, the City Housing Assistance Program (CHAP). Although we celebrate the fact that RHY in DYCD-funded shelter will qualify for CHAP, the vast majority of the…
Rape crisis centers plead with Hochul to reverse millions in funding cuts
Safe Horizon CEO Liz Roberts is quoted multiple times in this NBC New York article discussing funding cuts from the New York State Office of Victim Services. “The Governor has been a champion for survivor services. It doesn’t align with her values to cut programs like this.”…
Brides March
The Annual Gladys Ricard & Victims of Domestic Violence Memorial Walk/Brides’ March is a yearly march to raise awareness of domestic violence in New York City. The walk is in honor of Gladys Ricart, who was murdered on the day of her wedding by an abusive ex-boyfriend.
One Too Many NY 5K
Safe Horizon’s Child Advocacy Centers (CACs) are proud to partner with the New York State Children’s Alliance for the One Too Many NY 5K from September 18th-20th —a statewide run/walk event raising awareness and support for children impacted by abuse. Join us by registering to walk in person…
A Letter to Black Men With Anxiety: You Are Seen
I am a Black man who struggles with anxiety and self-doubt. I am also a man who is learning to stop treating his pain like a secret that needs to be kept. I want to tell you something I’ve spent years learning how to say out loud: I…
Safe Horizon Responds to T Visa Processing Delays
While the government claims to want to focus its limited resources on the processing of visas for survivors of violent crime and human trafficking, the data on the ground tells an entirely different story. Newly released figures by USCIS show that T Visa processing times have slowed down to an effective standstill, with cases taking close to three…
Sadida's Story
Just over a year ago, I arrived at a Safe Horizon shelter at 2 A.M, in the rain, holding my 11-month old daughter, Erhaa. Earlier that night, I thought my husband was going to kill me. In 2024, I moved to New York from Bangladesh to be with my husband and begin a new life together. We were friends…
E. Jean Carroll has justice with ASA
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict, reaffirming the power of survivor-centered legislation and now he has been ordered by a federal judge to pay her the $5.8 million she won in a judgment against him. That’s why we,…
