Community Advocacy
In Loving memory Of Iryna
Honoring Iryna’s legacy through action.
Through collective advocacy, Survivors Outreach Ministries worked alongside North Carolina advocates, community leaders, and state representatives to help pass Iryna’s Law in North Carolina—transforming grief into policy change and accountability.
Family Court in Charlotte NC, are they doing what's best for the children?
We have elected Judges with absolute power in the courtroom, has it absolutely corrupted? You be the judge. In 2021 Mother's and Family Court Attorney in NC Ty Decosta expose their experiences with a former Family Court Judge In Mecklenburg County, NC.
After Math of Domestic Violence: Mental Health, Homelessness, and the Court System:
The unspoken side of D.V and Mental Health. We are going to be getting REAL honest about Domestic Violence and Mental Health by looking at the unspoken side and under acknowledged side of these issues.
"Domestic violence is not about size, gender, or strength. "It's about abuse, control, and power. Getting out of dangerous situations and getting help, whether you are a woman being abused, or a man."
We as a society do not want to acknowledge that just like women, men suffer from abuse and struggle with mental health, nor do we provide a safe, non-judgmental space for them speak up and seek help.
The Family Court System Verses The Parents
Parents resort to the Family Court when they cannot agree amicably. However, a vicious cycle can set in because the costs, delays and polarisation of the court process can aggravate their disagreement, leading to even greater demands on the Family Court process.The primary driver of these problems in the Family Court is the breakdown of the family. If families were more stable there would be less demand on the Family Court. Currently, family breakdown is treated primarily as a legal issue. However, the consequences of family breakdown are not only legal; they are family dynamics, child and parental emotional distress, damage to mental health etc. As highlighted below, public funds are used primarily for the legal process with little being used for treatment (eg mental health) of the participants. The emotional needs of the children are not being met.
As with any industry, those working in the Family Court, lawyers representing their clients, Guardian Ad Litems and those offering services to Domestic Abuse victims all derive their incomes from the current system. As such, they have no incentive to make the whole system more efficient, streamlined, less adversarial etc.
The formula used to calculate Child Maintenance payments is based on the number of nights the child spends with each parent. This incentivises one parent to reduce contact with the other as this results in them receiving higher support payments.
Community Recognition:
Tampa Voyage
In October of 2024 Jessika was recognized by Voyage Tampa for being a passionate advocate/activist for survivors of domestic violence and lobbying local, state and federal governments to ensure communities and the justice system provides effective support services to survivors.
Scars of Survival Magazine
Jessika earned the name "The Ultimate Dissenter" in 2021 when she challenged the family court system in a county in North Carolina against court personnel such as judges and lawyers about their approach dealing with domestic violence perpetrators and victims in Family Court when children are involved. Shedding light on how family courts around the state of NC and the country notoriously award abusers with custody and visitation. She also shed light on the fact that many survivors of domestic violence are charged with contempt of court or face other penalties in their efforts to protect themselves and their children from abuse.
Blue Heart Campaign
Brittni Crabill speaks at the Blue Campaign. The Blue Heart Campaign is a global awareness campaign led by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to combat human trafficking. It aims to raise awareness about human trafficking and its impact, encouraging governments, civil society, and individuals to take action to prevent it. The blue heart symbol represents solidarity with victims and the cold-heartedness of traffickers, and the campaign also supports the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons. Brittni is a passionate advocate for children and survivors of Human Trafficking.
Our History:
Survivors Outreach Ministries was born from the lived experiences of domestic violence survivors who understood firsthand how difficult it can be to leave an abusive relationship, remain separated from an abuser, and navigate the systems that are supposed to help. Survivors repeatedly encountered fragmented resources, contradictory information, limited long-term support, complicated court and agency processes, post-separation abuse, and systems that often required victims to repeatedly explain, document, and defend their experiences while trying to rebuild their lives. It became clear that leaving an abusive relationship was often only the beginning.
Many domestic violence and human trafficking programs provide critical crisis intervention, but survivors may continue facing legal, financial, housing, family-court, criminal-justice, safety, and institutional challenges long after the immediate crisis has passed. Survivors Outreach Ministries was created to help address that gap. Our founder brought survivors together to develop a Christ-centered, survivor-informed peer advocacy model focused on helping victims understand their options, organize documentation, navigate systems, locate resources, and move forward without losing their voice in the process.
For years, Survivors Outreach Ministries provided direct, individualized advocacy to victims navigating domestic violence, human trafficking, family-court proceedings, criminal-justice systems, post-separation abuse, and other complex circumstances. As that work continued, a larger pattern became impossible to ignore. Many of the problems survivors encountered were not isolated to one relationship, one courtroom, one agency, or one community. We repeatedly encountered systemic failures, institutional breakdowns, inconsistent enforcement of victims’ rights, failures of accountability, abuse of authority, neglect of duty, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and policies or practices that could place victims at greater risk.
That realization expanded our mission. Beginning in 2025, Survivors Outreach Ministries strengthened its work beyond individual advocacy to include national victims’ rights advocacy, systems accountability, public-integrity advocacy, public education, legislative and policy advocacy, institutional reform, and research into systemic issues affecting victims and communities. We did not stop advocating for individual survivors. We expanded because individual advocacy showed us where the system itself was failing.
Today, Survivors Outreach Ministries works on two levels: helping survivors navigate difficult systems while also confronting the systemic conditions that repeatedly harm victims. Our systems-accountability and public-integrity work may involve concerns regarding abuse of authority, neglect of duty, institutional misconduct, victim-rights violations, conflicts of interest, retaliation, misuse of public resources, financial misconduct, public-safety failures, and allegations of corruption involving individuals or institutions entrusted with public responsibility. Our work may include reviewing documentation, researching publicly available records, organizing timelines and supporting evidence, identifying patterns of concern, educating the public, advocating for transparency, and referring credible information to appropriate oversight, regulatory, administrative, ethics, legal, or law-enforcement authorities.
We do not believe titles, political influence, institutional prestige, professional status, or positions of authority place anyone above accountability. The greater the authority entrusted to an individual or institution, the greater the responsibility to exercise that authority lawfully, ethically, and with regard for the people affected by those decisions. Our faith requires us to confront injustice rather than become comfortable with it. Scripture repeatedly warns against those who misuse authority, deny justice, oppress the vulnerable, or conceal wrongdoing. Jesus taught that what is hidden will ultimately be brought to light, and that principle remains central to our approach to accountability.
Power does not erase accountability. Position does not silence truth. Influence does not place anyone beyond scrutiny. Whether the concern involves a private individual, nonprofit institution, government agency, public official, court system, service provider, or other institution, Survivors Outreach Ministries believes credible allegations should be examined according to evidence, law, due process, transparency, and appropriate oversight. We are not interested in protecting reputations at the expense of victims. We are interested in protecting truth, fairness, public safety, institutional integrity, and the rights of people who may otherwise feel powerless against systems larger than themselves.
Our public-policy and legislative advocacy focuses on laws, policies, and institutional practices affecting victim safety, offender accountability, due process, public safety, government transparency, and confidence in the justice system. We advocate for policies that meaningfully protect victims, preserve fairness, strengthen accountability, and require institutions entrusted with public authority to answer for how that authority is exercised. We believe reform should be evaluated by its actual consequences for victims and communities, not by political slogans, institutional interests, or ideology.
Our mission has therefore grown from helping survivors navigate the system to also asking difficult questions about the system itself: Were victims’ rights respected? Was authority properly exercised? Were warning signs ignored? Were public resources used appropriately? Was misconduct reported and addressed? Were institutional failures concealed or corrected? And when systems fail, who is willing to demand accountability?
Survivors Outreach Ministries is willing to ask those questions. We will continue advocating for survivors individually while addressing systemic failures that affect victims collectively. We will continue researching, documenting, educating, speaking, referring credible concerns, supporting responsible reform, and advocating for accountability regardless of how influential the institution or individual involved may be.
Our mission remains rooted in the principles that created this organization: truth, justice, compassion, accountability, and biblical justice. We believe victims deserve more than sympathy. They deserve to be heard, informed, protected, respected, and taken seriously. When systems entrusted with protecting people fail in that responsibility, advocacy must be willing to confront the failure.
Truth. Justice. Compassion. No One Fights Alone.
WE DO NOT PROVIDE EMERGENCY SHELTER
We are not an emergency shelter, crisis-response agency, law firm, counseling center, or emergency housing provider.
We do not provide emergency shelter placement, 24/7 crisis intervention, legal representation, legal advice, medical treatment, homeless services or emergency response services.
If you are experiencing an emergency or immediate danger, please call 911 or contact your local emergency services provider immediately.