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EDUCATION

Bringing Research
Into the Community

We translate research on financial coercive control and institutional response into accessible public education and create spaces for meaningful community conversation.

RESEARCH → PUBLIC EDUCATION → COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

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EDUCATION

Bringing Research
Into the Community

We translate research on financial coercive control and institutional response into accessible public education and create spaces for meaningful community conversations. 

RESEARCH → PUBLIC EDUCATION→ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS

OUR SIGNATURE INITIATIVE

Community Conversations bring research, lived experience, professional practice, and community stakeholders into the same room.

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Each conversation examines what the evidence tells us. what survivors experience in practice, and where opportunities exist to improve institutional response.

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NEXT COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

When Coercive Control 
Turns Financial

the Institutional Response

Date: November 7, 2026

Time: 5:00 p.m.

Location: Nyack, New York

Our inaugural Community Conversation will explore financial coercive control, institutional response, and how that response can directly affect a survivor's ability to leave and rebuild.

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

BRING THE CONVERSATION TO YOUR COMMUNITY

Host a Community Conversation

Community Conversations are designed to travel. Organizations, community leaders, businesses, professionals, and supporters can help bring a Community Conversation to their own community and create space for research-informed public education and meaningful local dialogue.

Approximately how many guests do you believe you could realistically bring together?
10–25
25-50
50+
Community Conversations are fundraising events benefiting You Made a Way. Would you be comfortable helping us build an event designed to both educate your community and raise funds to support our work?
Yes
I'd like to learn more about what's involved.
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