October 2026 Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Plus the prayer connection !
365 Days of Prayer Please join the movement for 365 days.
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Please join the movement for 365 days to pray in unity. Take time 12 noon daily and say the Lord’s prayer. We began on April 5, 2026 Easter Sunday.
THE LORDS PRAYER
Matthew 6:9-13
(ETHIOPIAN BIBLE VERSION)
Our Father in heaven may your name be kept holy. Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
Thank You
Dr. Janice Donald
THE MISSION
Mission Statement
FROM BROKENNESS TO WHOLENESS
Beauty From Ashes is an Inclusive Outreach organization which empowers broken men and women from domestic abuse to a place of healing and wholeness through our love, care and personal concern. Also, by creating opportunities for enhancement by strengthening faith, family and confidence, and by offering various other means of assistance. Our program promotes and empowers individuals for entrepreneurship and other specialized careers, as they evolve into productive citizens.
Goals:
Helping individuals Empower Themselves Through Development and Education.
How We Help !
*Seminars
*Talks
*Trainings
*Conferences
* And more if accepted into the program!
READ THE SIGNS?
STOP & READ
1. When the partner/abuser have an explosive, and violent temper.
2. Be aware when the partner/abuser exhibits unpredictable behaviors, (for example) Cruelty to animal and children or friends and family.
3. Possessiveness, jealousy, imprisonment, or inflicting physical harm.
4. Forced sexual activity, and disregard for sexual boundaries.
5. Controlling behavior, micro managed all activities including dress attire.
6. Demand complete control over money, phones, and property requiring isolation from friends and family.
7. Being blamed for everything that goes wrong including workplace pressure.
8. Publicly shaming speaking cruel hurtful words sharply lashing out verbally or physically.
9. Contracting sexual transmitted diseases.
10. Abusing or asking you to take drugs, or medications that are not prescribed by your doctor.
11. With holding food or medications as a form of punishment or control.
12. Inflicting bodily injury such as slapping, kicking, punching, choking, pinching, or applying physical restraints.
13. Sexual Abuse & Coercion by requesting you have sex with others.
14. Contact that is unwanted and unwelcome.
15. Being forced to perform nudity, sexually explicit photography, and sodomy.
16. Mental & Emotional Abuse causing emotional or mental pain and anxiety resulting in lack of sleep.
17. Behaviors of emotional abuse include isolation, harassment, ridiculing, coercion, intimidation, silencing and controlling behaviors including work relationships.
18. Neglect is by far one of the worst forms because the scars are not visible. Neglect can be withholding resources, kindness, compassion, and love. Neglect can lead to mental, emotional and issues with physical health.
19. Gaslighting is a type of emotional and psychological abuse, meaning that it is a non-physical abuse in which the perpetrator intends to frighten, isolate or control another person. Simply put, gaslighting is when the perpetrator constantly and dishonestly disputes your own accounts of your experiences, causing a growing sense of self-doubt and isolation. Being manipulated into questioning your sanity, decisions, or powers of reasoning.
https://www.sacap.edu.za/blog/applied-psychology/types-of-gaslighting/#
● 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men in the United States have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner.
● On a single day in 2020, domestic violence hotlines received 21,321 calls, an average of almost 15 calls every minute.
● In 2018, domestic violence accounted for 20% of all violent crime.
● Abusers’ access to firearms increases the risk of intimate partner homicide approximately 1,000%. When firearms have been used in the most severe abuse incident, the risk increases 41%.
● 65% of all murder-suicides involve an intimate partner; 96% of the victims of these crimes are female.
Referenced: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/datasources/nisvs/index.html
TAKE ACTION
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