🗓️ SAVE THE DATE – June 5 is our national #DayOfAction to demand federal funding for sexual assault and domestic violence services. 

Mark Your Calendar. Tell Your Community. Raise Your Voice. 

Lives are on the line. Programs are closing. Congress must act.

Join us and raise your voice: survivors and communities are counting on it. #FundSafetyNow #ProtectVictims #SavetheDate

How To Contact Your Members of Congress 

Who is your Member of Congress? 

You can find your Senator at https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact and your Representative at https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house?ZIP=. 

Call their office 

To contact your Senators and Representative by phone, call the US Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to these offices, or find their phone numbers on their websites. 

Email their staff directly

If possible, we recommend this method of contacting your Member’s office, as it allows you to build a relationship with the staffer who is working on our issues for the Member of Congress and share your concerns directly with them. See here for a staff contact list. We suggest emailing their women’s issues staff, their judiciary staff, their legislative directors, and their appropriations staff.

Email through their website 

To contact your Senators and Representatives by email, go to their website and click on the ‘contact us’ link.

Call and Email Scripts

While the call and email scripts below were drafted for victim service providers, they can also be used by individuals who are passionate about supporting victims and survivors but may not represent a program. Just take out the language in brackets! 

House and Senate Call Script:

I’m calling from [XXXX program in] XXX town/state to urge Rep./Sen.XXX to take immediate action to protect and support increased federal funding to serve victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Federal grants from the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Centers for Disease and Control (CDC) are essential to our program. 

Right now we’re facing major problems with delays, grant terminations across the field, programmatic restructuring, loss of staff, delayed posting of NOFOs, and lack of communication that are causing serious uncertainty and alarm. We need reliable, stable, and timely federal funding to continue to provide safety, support and services and people experiencing violence.Please ask Rep./Sen. XXX to commit to protecting this critical funding and investing in lifesaving resources.

House and Senate Email Script:

I’m am writing to urge Rep./Sen. XXX to help us maintain our FY25 federal funding and fight for increased FY26 federal funding so that we can maintain  services to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. [I work at XXX program in XXX town/state serving victims in (list of) counties. Our program provides an essential public safety response to violent crime in our community.] 

I’m writing to urge Rep./Sen. XXX to fight for funding to support  grant programs from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women and Office for Victims of Crime and the HHS Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services and the CDC Division of Violence Prevention which are essential  for our program to serve victims. Recent  grant terminations, delays, programmatic restructuring, loss of staff, delayed postings  of NOFOs, and lack of communication are causing grave insecurity and alarm. If our program [loses funding/has to reduce services/is terminated], we could have to lay off staff and turn victims and survivors away from services they desperately need.

To combat domestic violence and sexual assault effectively and directly serve victims, we need our grants to be reliable, stable, and timely. Please ask Rep./Sen. XXX to protect these grants, push for immediate restoration of rescinded funds, and ensure robust investments in FY26. Victims and survivors, their families, and their communities depend on it.