Winter Campaign Letter 2025
Dear Friends,
2024 brought too many stories of lives ended by domestic violence—lives cut short, children left without parents, communities left grieving.
The way those stories are told creates a particular kind of hopelessness. As if violence is inevitable. As if there’s nothing to be done.
But here’s what doesn’t make the news: the survivor sitting on the floor of her kitchen, crying happy tears because she’s holding keys to her very own place for the first time in her life, texting her advocate to say “thank you for believing in me.”
That text came at 2:47 PM on a Tuesday. It’s just one of thousands of stories from this year that you won’t read about in headlines.
You won’t read about the college student who intervened at a party after Green Dot training. Or the 90 seconds of breathing before someone who has used abuse chose to pause and respond with respect instead.
These moments don’t make the news. But they change everything.
Violence thrives in silence. Every time we show up—every time you show up—we’re saying: not here, not anymore.
The deaths we mourn this year are real. The grief is real. And so is this: 404 people found their way to safety in 2024. That number could have been smaller. It could have included people who are alive today.
Your support creates a web that catches people when they’re falling. Change is possible. Communities can choose to show up differently. And when we do, lives are saved.
Thank you for being part of that change.
With fierce hope,
Jo Bair, MSW
Executive Director of enCourage Advocacy Center
