Take Some Action
Being mothers, we love kind words, high fives, and hugs, but what we really need is action.
We need policy-makers (that could be you) to fix this broken system for all marginalized communities.
First of all, VOTE. This list of contacts will consistently shift based on your voting.
Secondly, reach out your your local representatives, encouraging:
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The hiring of higher-credentialed and fully trained in trauma survival professionals, rather than untrained and uneducated paraprofessionals who are more affordable,
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The training of existing professionals to handle modern psychology, implicit and explicit bias common to all humans, trauma-informed care, cycles of abuse, gaslighting, and physical and mental health diagnoses that are only held against already marginalized community members,
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The holding of court-associated hires to the standards of the licenses held and career expectations established in their fields,
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The complete rejection of discrimination against community members already marginalized by abuse, gender, sexuality, age, race, ethnicity, ability, health diagnoses, and other protected statuses in favor of those who are overwhelmingly privileged and most frequently guilty of committing offenses against those more vulnerable, and
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The immediate cessation of holding “alienation” against trauma and abuse survivors when they speak up about the naturally negative trauma and abuse they have suffered at the hands of abusers.
- Don’t forget that any injustice affects intersectional communities even more; stand with LGBTQ+, Black Lives Matter, differently-abled, impoverished, and all neighbors who are being stepped upon by the same systems.
Contact Your Representatives in 2 Minutes! Text the word RESIST to me on iMessage, Messenger, Twitter, Telegram, or to 50409 on SMS* and read what I text you back. I’ll turn your texts into an letter, and deliver it to the elected officials you choose: from your state legislator to the President.
Here are some local representatives to whom you can reach out:
(again, note that this will frequently shift based on voting and each representative’s performance [or lack there of] for those most in need.)
- La Crosse County Board of Supervisors
Administrative Center
212 6th Street North
La Crosse WI
email: countyboardsupervisors@lacrossecounty.org
http://www.co.la-crosse.wi.us/countyboard/members.asp
- La Crosse Mayor Kabat
https://www.cityoflacrosse.org/your-government/mayor
City Hall
400 La Crosse Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
kabatt@cityoflacrosse.org
- Jill Billings
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/legislators/assembly/1889
Madison Office:
Room 307 West
State Capitol
PO Box 8952
Madison, WI 53708Email: Rep.Billings@legis.wisconsin.gov
- Senator Jennifer Shilling – Senate District 32
(Is not seeking another term and will be replaced by either Kapanke or Pfaff.)
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/legislators/senate/1918Madison Office:
Room 206 SouthState CapitolPO Box 7882
Madison, WI 53707Telephone:(608) 266-5490District Phone:
(608) 782-2785
Sen.Shilling@legis.wisconsin.gov
District Address:
205 5th Avenue S. Suite 312
La Crosse, WI 54601
- Brad Pfaff for State Senate
https://www.bradpfaff.com/contact
info@bradpfaff.com
PO Box 684
La Crosse, WI 54602
- Dan Kapanke for State Senate
https://dankapankeforsenate.com/contact/ (Yeah, that’s really all he’s giving us. Maybe he doesn’t want to hear your thoughts.)
- Steve Doyle
https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2019/legislators/assembly/1888
Madison Office:
Room 124 North
State Capitol
PO Box 8952
Madison, WI 53708
Rep.Doyle@legis.wisconsin.gov
- Ron Kind
https://kind.house.gov/
La Crosse Office:
205 Fifth Avenue S.
Suite 400
La Crosse, WI 54601Washington, DC Office:
1502 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
https://kind.house.gov/contact/email (requires full zip code and no attachments)
- Senator Tammy Baldwin
https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/
WASHINGTON, D.C.
709 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5653LA CROSSE
210 7th Street South, Suite 3
La Crosse, WI 54601
Phone: (608) 796-0045
https://www.baldwin.senate.gov/feedback
- Senator Ron Johnson
https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-the-senator
Washington D.C. Office
328 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5323
Fax: (202) 228-6965
No La Crosse Office
- Relative to PsyD complaints:
Psychology Examining Board
DSPS
PO Box 8366
Madison, WI 53708-8366
- Relative to LCSW complaints:
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Division of Legal Services and Compliance
P.O. Box 7190
Madison, WI 53707-7190
and
The National Association of Social Workers – Wisconsin Chapter
131 W. Wilson, Ste 903
Madison, WI 53703
- WI atty complaints/WI State Bar
https://www.wicourts.gov/courts/offices/olr.htm
https://www.wicourts.gov/courts/offices/docs/olrpamphlet.pdf
Office of Lawyer Regulation
110 East Main Street, Suite 315
P.O. Box 1648
Madison, WI 53701-1648
Fax: (608) 267-1959
Email: olr.intake@wicourts.gov
- Local Judges
https://www.lacrossecounty.org/Court/docs/Judges.htm
La Crosse County Circuit Court
La Crosse County Courthouse & Law Enforcement Center
333 Vine St.
La Crosse, WI 54601-3296