Online chat for women victims of violence

Dear difters,

As every year, En avant toute(s) is launching a campaign to appeal for generosity: "Not everyone can listen, but everyone can give"aims to show the silent reality of violence against young people, women and LGBTQIA+ people.

For the overwhelming majority of victims, isolation and lack of support are major obstacles. They often struggle to find an attentive, caring and non-judgmental ear.

That's why, through our national help and support scheme,the Commentonsaime.fr chat, En avant toute(s) meets this vital need by offering a secure space where victims can be listened to, supported and guided, in complete confidentiality. Our team of psychosocial listeners is specially trained to listen, support and guide victims of violence.

From November 25 to December 31, each week, discover a new video that gives visibility to the experience of people who are victims of violence too often misunderstood, ignored or judged by those around them. Listening is a profession, and that's exactly what we do at En avant toute(s).

Your donation is essential to continue to guarantee confidential, caring support for victims. Every contribution directly funds our support scheme, offeringan attentive and professional ear to people who break the silence to talk about the violence they've suffered.

Together, we can make a difference.

After a year of hard work, we're very proud to present the results of the first impact report on our support chat for victims of violence,  Commentonsaime.fr.
In collaboration with the firm Improve, experts in impact measurement, these figures shed essential light on how the chatCommentonsaime.fr constitutes an unprecedented tool for responding to the specific realities of violence and its consequences among young people.
This particular audience still finds it difficult to approach non-specialized field structures, and prefers the anonymity offered by the Internet.

On Tuesday September 24, we organized a event to present the main results of our impact measurement in front of our partners and the press at the Cité Audacieuse.
The results show that the Commentonsaime.fr chat has enabled listening to the written word to emerge, which constitutes a real paradigm shift in caring for victimized people by talking about love to put an end to violence. Trained psychosocial listeners listen, reassure, restore confidence in a caring, non-judgmental way.
This innovative approach makes it possible to rcapture the unheard voice of young people, women and LGBTQIA+ people, often considered 'off the radar' due to the difficulty of reaching them. 

The visibility of these audiences makes the Commentonsaime.fr chat tool indispensable to take the first step towards leaving violence.

Here's the link to download the report! 

The association fighting for equality and an end to sexist and sexual violence En avant toute(s), has teamed up with production studio MenuXL to launch the campaign "Ceci n'est pas un message d'amour" directed by Edith Chapin and co-written with Morgane Ortin.
The subject is a vital one: young women are over-represented among victims of domestic violence. The phenomenon affects 1 in 7 young people, compared with 1 in 10 women of all ages (ENVEFF survey). "With pop culture, young people are imbued with the idea that love must be a crazy, almost destructive passion. This film denounces the romanticization of these mechanisms, particularly jealousy, which they will see as proof of love. It's vital to get this message across to them." Ynaée Benaben, director and co-founder of En avant toute(s).
The film encourages mobilization via an appeal for generosity on the En avant toute(s) website to fight for an end to domestic violence. Indeed, while it is vital to encourage victims of violence to speak out, this cannot happen without support for the structures that listen to and accompany them, as En avant toute(s) does via its Commentonsaime.fr chat.
Since the chat's creation, the association has recorded more than 19,900 chats and accompanies a growing number of minors reporting sexist and sexual and/or intra-family violence. Ynaée Benaben, director and co-founder of the association En avant toute(s), stresses the importance of awareness campaigns representing young women, asserting:"We know today that young women find it extremely difficult to find themselves in representations of women who are victims of domestic violence. It's essential to have campaigns that reflect them, so that they can identify with them, to stem the tide of this phenomenon, which still affects 1 in 7 young people under 25."
Every donation counts, so please support us and share the video!
Thank you;3 

The En avant toute(s) chat response team has published its second-quarter review 🌞 

From April to June 2023, the association is proud to have been able to carry out 1629 chats, for a total of 851 interlocutors. 

The 2 most represented age brackets are the 18-25 years (35.9%), and the 26-35 years (32.6%). We also note that 83 minors used chat, a higher figure than in the previous quarter.
The violence most often reported by victims is psychological and sexual violence, in 69.6% and 50% of cases respectively. 32.3% describe verbal violence, and 32.9% physical violence. 

The funding received has made it possible to keep the chat open 78h a week, from 10am to midnight Monday to Thursday, and from 10am to 9pm on Friday and Saturday, with 12 people on the response team. 

We need you more than ever during this intense period 💜

Thank you all for your support!