Color Me Butterfly

March brings mixed feelings for me.  Why?  Because it marks the one year anniversary for Color Me Butterfly, and it is the month that I have chosen to launch the Saving Promise Campaign.

What is the Saving Promise Campaign?

The Saving Promise Campaign is a campaign which proposes policies that will strengthen current laws and advocacies, and create more safety networks to protect victims and their children from domestic violence and abuse.   Specifically, it proposes such changes as stricter restraining order policies, mandatory counseling for batterers, more rights for victim’s families to intervene on behalf of a victim, child's life protection, a national behavior and support hotline for batterers, further training for law enforcement agencies and personnel, and programs to raise awareness in public and private schools.

While I am not thrilled about the personal experiences that has led me to do this; I am thrilled about the possibilities that the Saving Promise Campaign can bring.  Coming from a family of 60+ years of domestic violence and abuse, I feel we have been silent for far too long in our families, our communities, our laws.  Laws that are at times unfathomable and laughable.

I’ve come to personally experience the breakdown in our laws when I recently learned that the man in my daughter’s life had tried to kill her and had also threatened the life of their baby girl named Promise.  I called the police, an attorney, a domestic violence agency to seek justice on behalf of my daughter and Promise and was met with the same news.  There was nothing I could do since my daughter was an adult.  My daughter would have to seek justice on her own.  Something my daughter was unwilling to do.  Something very common amongst domestic violence victims.

Well, they were right about one thing – my daughter is an adult.  But they were wrong about something else – there is something I could do.  I could fight to change laws!

I plan to collect 1 million signatures to take to Congress along with my proposed policies.  I believe that when you speak in volume, you WILL be heard.  Therefore, I ask you to join in the fight for change.  Help me Save Promise.  Help me Save Others.  Help me Save Lives. 

Please visit http://www.colormebutterfly.com/saving-promise-campaign/ to pledge your support.  Your voice just might save a life!