We are proud to announce that The Safe Sisters Circle, one of Open Horizon’s nonprofit partners, has been awarded the Nannie Helen Burroughs Humanitarian Award during the District of Columbia Courts’ Black History Month’s Fourth Annual African American Impact Awards Ceremony.
The Nannie Helen Burroughs Humanitarian Award is given to an individual or organization/agency in recognition of exemplary and sustained commitment to serving the people of the District of Columbia.
Alana Brown founded the Safe Sisters Circle in 2018, to provide free, culturally specific, and trauma-informed representation to survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the majority-Black communities of Wards 7 and 8—where women face the highest rates of domestic violence in the District.
The Safe Sisters Circle provides legal support through victim advocacy, representing survivors in divorce, custody, and child support matters, and obtaining orders of protection against abusers. Because the Safe Sisters Circles believes in helping the survivor as a whole person and understands the need for assistance beyond the legal system to help survivors get to a safe space, they also offer holistic services to their legal clients by helping clients find emergency/temporary housing (and paying for hotel stays if necessary), assisting with the Crime Victims Compensation Application, connecting clients with therapy services, and providing grocery store gift cards to clients who are having issues with benefits.
Learn more about The Safe Sisters Circle’s vital work at their website https://safesisterscircle.org/.
