The Nationwide Home Violence Hotline (The Hotline) and the Nationwide Coalition Towards Home Violence (NCADV) congratulate Lynn Rosenthal on her appointment as Director of Sexual and Gender-Based mostly Violence on the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS). Director Rosenthal is a longtime advocate for victims and survivors of home violence and different types of gender-based violence and served as the primary White Home Particular Advisor on Gender-Based mostly Violence beneath President Obama.
“We congratulate Director Rosenthal on this appointment and look ahead to her management in increasing assist for survivors of sexual assault and gender-based violence. Daily hundreds of individuals throughout the U.S. attain out to The Hotline for assist. We deeply worth leaders, like Director Rosenthal, who advocate for survivor-centered responses and assets that make our mission potential,” says Katie Ray-Jones, CEO, Nationwide Home Violence Hotline.
“Director Rosenthal has been a fierce champion for victims, survivors, and advocates all through her lengthy and impactful profession. Her appointment is important to strengthening the Federal authorities’s non-carceral response to gender-based violence, and we look ahead to working carefully together with her in her new capability,” says Ruth M. Glenn, NCADV’s President of Public Affairs.
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HHS is accountable for implementing the Household Violence Prevention and Companies Act in addition to many applications upon which victims and survivors rely to take care of their and their households well being and financial safety, together with security internet applications similar to Short-term Help for Needy Households, Head Begin, Supplemental Vitamin Help Program, Medicare, Medicaid, Youngsters’s Well being Insurance coverage Program, baby care help, and lots of different important applications.
In July 2021, the Nationwide Home Violence Hotline (The Hotline) and the Nationwide Coalition Towards Home Violence (NCADV) management met to discover how our two organizations may work collectively to additional our missions — increasing assist for victims, survivors and for many who present companies to them. In August 2022, each boards unanimously voted to hitch collectively via a enterprise affectionately named Challenge Opal.
