Flexible Financial Assistance

Flexible Financial Assistance provides survivors of gender-based violence with unrestricted funds to help achieve stability and safety, and can assist with costs related to the social determinants of health, addressing areas that can have an impact on one’s physical, psychological, or emotional wellbeing and safety.

ODVN’s Flexible Financial Assistance is run through ODVN’s Health Access program, focusing on incorporating health advocacy and mobile advocacy policies into victim service organizations, and can pay for things like:

• Transportation
• Clothing
• Furniture
• Cell phones/cell phone minutes
• Vocation/Education costs
• Medical related costs
• Children/Family needs

For more information on how to access these funds, please contact Cheniece Wilson (cheniecew@odvn.org).

Flexible Financial Assistance is a core tenant of providing mobile advocacy services. For more information on mobile advocacy policies and practices, please contact Emily Kulow (emilyk@odvn.org).