Raise voice against Abuse

If one had, Sucre’s physical and mental abuse at the hands of her husband may have been picked up, and help could have been arranged.

Instead, it went unchecked and led to a spiral of events that ended with Sucre’s diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in January of last year by Debbian Fletcher-Blake, a nurse and the assistant executive director of Care for the Homeless, a nonprofit network that provides medical care at 25 clinics in New York.

“I never would have known Nina was in an abusive relationship had I not asked her, screened her,” Fletcher-Blake said. “Some women are crying out for help, and we don’t see it.”

Domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness for women, according to John Lozier, the executive director at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC).