Mujeres Latinas en Acción (Mujeres) announced this week the launch of The Family Rehabilitation Fund, to support vital and underfunded programming for breaking the cycle of family violence, specifically the Parent Support Program and its component of Supervised Visitation/Safe Exchange. The Family Rehabilitation Fund was propelled forward in early 2019 with seed funding from Sidley Austin LLP. The fund has already raised over $86,000 in the first few months of Year One. Early partners were instrumental. BMO Harris Bank provided a gift and a matching opportunity which inspired a generous donation from an anonymous donor. In April 2019, Verizon committed support to The Family Rehabilitation Fund which will also underwrite the Parent Support Program’s expansion and move to our new offices in the Brighton Park neighborhood of Chicago in late Spring 2019. The Parent Support Program and Supervised Visitation/Safe Exchange focuses on the challenges of parenting while confronting barriers such as poverty, racism, and other systematic oppressive forces often culminate in tense family dynamics. Programming often available for these families is based on safety-net models that lack holistic, long-term engagement to move clients towards true healing. Mujeres is looking to the legal, medical, and professional communities throughout the Greater Chicagoland Area to grow The Family Rehabilitation Fund, intended as a patronage for these much needed healing services. For more information, visit www.mujereslatinasenaccion.org.