LEAVING IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP.
How institutions respond directly impacts her ability to leave and rebuild.
You Made a Way is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that researches financial coercive control and institutional response and translates what we learn into public education and community conversations.
THE QUESTION AT THE CENTER OF OUR WORK
What happens
after the first step?
Research can change what we know. Evidence can shape law and policy. But meaningful change also depends on what happens when that knowledge reaches the institutions responsible for putting it into practice.
You Made a Way examines the space between research, policy, and practice and what institutional response means for a survivor's ability to leave and rebuild.
RESEARCH
What does the evidence tell us?
POLICY
How is that knowledge translated into law and policy?
PRACTICE
What happens when institutions implement it?
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Where does the evidence translate into practice?
Where do gaps remain? And what happens to survivors within those gaps?
OUR WORK
We research.
We educate.
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EDUCATION
We bring what we learn into the room.
Through public education and Community Conversations, we bring research, lived experience, professionals. institutions, and communities together to deepen understanding, identify gaps. id strengthen the conversation around what happens after a survivor leaves.
WHY YOUR SUPPORT MATTERS
Behind Every Gift Is a Woman
Trying to Find Her Way Forward
Hear from a woman whose life was impacted by the support made possible through You Made a Way
LEAVING IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP.