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Every day in Massachusetts, survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence face intersecting challenges to achieving safety, healing, and well-being. Right now, those challenges are deepening as survivors – and the workers and advocates who support them – face intense, politicized attacks that include threats to funding and the indiscriminate targeting of survivor communities.

As Massachusetts’ statewide coalition against sexual assault and domestic violence, we are watching survivors hesitate to seek out potentially life-saving care and support out of fear. Advocates become increasingly exhausted and

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