Help Stop Military Family Violence

Justine, her husband, and their two children lived in Greece where Justine’s husband is assigned to the Crete Navel Base.  Justine was the victim of both verbal and physical abuse from her husband, she has been isolated, keeping this secret from everyone in her life for over five years. Reliant on her husband’s wages, Justine could not imagine how she was going to leave Greece with the children. With no one to turn to Justine finally reported the abuse to an advocate at the Family Advocacy Program, FAP.

FAP contacted AODVC. FAP and AODVC often work together in partnership to be able to provide the best possible outcome for victims of domestic violence in the military.  It is because of your support that AODVC was able to provide Justine and her children with the funds to obtain their needed travel documents, plane tickets back to the US, as well as temporary housing assistance.

We are grateful for your support!

Aaron and his wife Christine are both stationed at a US base in Japan with their two young daughters Brianna and Casey. Aaron’s relationship with Christine hasn’t always been great, Christine is verbally abusive to Aaron even in public or in front of their daughters. Aaron loves Christine and is trying to work things out for their children, but Christine’s verbal abuse is humiliating for him. When he tries to talk to her about it Christine just becomes angry and disagrees that there is a problem.

Aaron called our hotline on behalf of his daughters. He doesn’t want to turn his daughters against their mother, but he also doesn’t want his daughters to grow up thinking the way she acts and treats other people is okay. Aaron, Brianna and Casey all talk to AODVC counselors regularly. Aaron is processing his next steps.

Thanks to your support we can help Brianna and Casey grow up understanding that violence and verbal abuse is not okay and to understand it is not their fault.

Thank you for your support!