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At 32 years old, *Tanya had already survived being a victim of domestic violence. Yet the day she came to one of our Community Program offices, she was facing a new crisis \u2013 as a victim of stalking.<\/p>\n
When we sat down with Tanya, she told us how a neighbor had begun giving her unwanted attention. At first, he left gifts and notes for her at her home. Then she learned that he\u2019d tried to break into her home while she was gone. The most frightening episode came when he tried to run her down with his car. Tanya told us she had reported all these incidents, but the perpetrator continued to harass her. Tanya was terrified. She\u2019d already survived domestic violence and had managed to move forward with her life. But now, she desperately needed our help to survive a new, frightening situation.<\/p>\n
Tanya became one of estimated 3.4 million people who become stalking victims each year. Stalking can happen to anyone, even those like Tanya, who\u2019ve already survived other forms of crime and abuse. What would help make a difference for Tanya was having a place where she could not only tell her story, but find the support she needed to help her overcome this new crisis.<\/p>\n
With more than three decades of helping victims of crime and abuse, Safe Horizon has developed both the solid expertise in advocating for children, adults, and families in crisis, as well as a wide range of resources that victims can rely on when they most need our help. Once Tanya told us her story and how she felt she had little success in getting help against her perpetrator, we offered to call the police on her behalf. We spoke with officers about Tanya\u2019s case and within 24 hours, they had arrested and charged her stalker. When the assistant district attorney\u2019s office began investigating Tanya\u2019s case, we supported her in speaking with the office and by helping her navigate the criminal court system so that she could get an order of protection against her stalker.<\/p>\n
Tanya wanted to relocate so she could get as far away from her stalker and from their old neighborhood as she could. We helped Tanya find the financial assistance she needed to cover her moving expenses, which would make it easy for her to find a safer place to live.<\/p>\n
Tanya thanked our staff by saying, \u201cIt means so much that you cared.<\/em>\u201d And it\u2019s thanks to our supporters that we could be there when Tanya needed not only a listening ear, but a hand to help her become a survivor again over crisis.<\/p>\n * Client names and identifying information have been changed to protect their privacy. Images used are representations of Safe Horizon\u2019s clients<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tanya felt unsafe in her own home because of her neighbor’s unwanted advancements when she sought help at our Community Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":{"id":679,"alt_text":"Tanya\u2019s Story: Second-Time Survivor","caption":"","description":"Tanya\u2019s Story: Second-Time Survivor","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":400,"height":467,"file":"2016\/06\/Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-e1484857978467.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-e1464901929333-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 7.2% (539.0 B)","source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-e1464901929333-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-e1464901929333-257x300.jpg","width":257,"height":300,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 5.5% (1.0 kB)","source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-e1464901929333-257x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-768x511.jpg","width":768,"height":511,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 3.7% (2.2 kB)","source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-768x511.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"An attractive woman at a bus stop looking at viewer.\r\r[url=\/my_lightbox_contents.php?lightboxID=7099906]Click here for more[\/url] with this model.","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":["public transportation","bus stop","commuter","bus","on the go","head and shoulders","manhattan","hispanic","smiling","expressing positivity","woman","30s","young woman","outdoors","looking at camera","photography","one person","horizontal"]},"ewww_image_optimizer":"Reduced by 4.5% (2.3 kB)"},"post":745,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Tanya_Hispanic-Young-Female-Career-e1484857978467.jpg"},"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[92,115,113],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-domestic-violence","tag-domestic-violence-survivor-story","tag-stalking-survivor-story","issue-domestic-violence","issue-stalking"],"acf":{"page_header_excerpt":"Tanya felt unsafe in her own home because of her neighbor's unwanted advancements when she sought help at our Community Program.","related_initiative_link":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/get-help\/stalking\/","original_url":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/page\/tanyas-story-second-time-survivor-237.html","page_header_title":"","page_header_image":"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/silhouette_hero_image.png","related_initiative_title":"Do you need help?","related_initiative_link_text":"Visit our Stalking page to learn more","featured_posts":[{"ID":4213,"post_author":"13","post_date":"2017-03-31 15:18:15","post_date_gmt":"2017-03-31 15:18:15","post_content":"By Jill Reyes<\/em>\r\nMarch 31, 2017<\/em>\r\n\r\nSafe Horizon leads efforts to increase stalking awareness for teens and young adults. This includes online stalking behaviors, known as cyberstalking. Abusers can often use modern technology and social networking to intimidate and coerce their partners. To address growing concerns around cyberstalking for teens and young adults, we partnered with the Bronx Borough President\u2019s Office, Bronx District Attorney\u2019s Office, Bronx Family Justice Center, and New York City Department of Probation (DOP) to create the following stalking infographic that was supported with funding through the Department of Justice (DOJ):\r\n\r\n![\"Stalking](\"https:\/\/www.safehorizon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stalking-Information-for-Social-Media-and-Electronics-Users-410x1024.png\")
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