Angelina Rosado urges prevention and accountability for people causing harm

Yeah, I appreciate that.

My follow-up question to the survivors that are providing testimony today was, what are some maybe helpful experiences you've had navigating the system, but also where are the points of contention or points of where we have missteps and we're missing?

So I appreciate you uplifting that.

If anybody else wants to add as well, they can.

Yeah, I think I want to add to your first question.

We're talking about what is missing and what is not really working in reality is, right?

Leaning in on to prevention, right?

Making sure that we're just not always focused on survivors and putting burdens on survivors, right?

But shifting that energy to the people that are actually causing the harm.

Right.

Actually getting them the proper support and intervention that they need from a holistic standpoint.

So as Sisters in Purple, we actually have an initiative called Brothers in Purple.

And our brothers, you know, that comes from a space with people who have self-identified as people that have caused harm

and are choosing, again, self-voluntary, are choosing to seek further support and assistance to no longer have the mentality of what they believed was normal, right?

Hurt people hurt people, and that's the reality.

And people that cause harm are people that have had a calm cause to them.

Right.

So when we talk about preventive measures, right, investing, we work with a lot of our CMS organizations, our gun violence prevention and working within that system is also helping training them.

Right.

Helping training them as survivor led organizations.

We believe that we have the best training, right?

We are the survivors.

They learn domestic violence differently when it comes from a survivor-led organization.

And that's what we have been proving.

We have worked with our CMS and also our reentry programs.

We have also worked with them and training their staff on how to identify domestic violence, not just for the community that they're serving, but also the people that they are employing.

You know, just as recently, we just had a survivor of domestic violence who worked at a domestic violence shelter in Staten Island who was murdered pregnant in Queens.

This happened in June.

And yet it is still quiet and we have not heard anything.

And to know that the person that caused the harm who is in question is a person who served as a gun violence preventer.

Right.

And the fact that staff is not trained properly or do they have the supportive resources for them to deal with whatever they are leaving at the door when they enter that organization.

Right.

People still go home and people still have their own traumas that they're also dealing with on top of asking them to support and protect our community.

Right.

They also are their own community and they also need that support there, too.