The Prince George's County Domestic Violence Work Group, chaired by Council Member Wanika Fisher, met on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 1:30 PM. The meeting included approval of prior minutes, a survivor testimony from the Family Justice Center, a presentation from the Home Builders Care Foundation, and a discussion on housing and services for domestic violence survivors.
Good afternoon, everyone. It's so uh great to be here for our monthly uh domestic violence uh work group meeting today is Monday, May 18th at 1 30 uh p.m. Um very excited uh to continue uh with our work uh to help move our domestic violence issues here in Prince George's County forward. My name is Wanika Fisher. I chair a public safety, health and human services for Prince George's County Council. Um, and I have the honor of chairing this work group um for the duration of its time. I know uh we're gonna get into the adoption of the minutes, some of our presentations and discussions for recommendations today. Um really excited to begin. And I will now turn it over to the director of the Health and Human Services, uh Public Safety Health and Human Services Work Group and uh the director for this work group, Mr. Nathaniel Tut. Mr. Tut, go ahead. Thank you, Madam Chair, and I will be very brief with two administrative items. You should have uh attached to the meeting invitation the minutes from the March 30th meeting, and you should also have meetings, excuse me, meeting minutes from our last meeting. Um and uh I would love if you would review those and let us know if you have any changes or corrections. If not, we would take a motion to approve the minutes. Motion to approve the minutes from um our last meeting. Actually, the last two meetings, madam chair. Oh, for our last two meetings, our first in person and our virtual meeting last month in um April. April 20th. April 20th. Can I get a second from someone on the call? Second. Thank you. I have a motion to approve the minutes and a second by Miss Paris from DeepI. Um, all those in favor say aye or raise your hand. Any opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you, Mr. Tutt. Thank you, madam chair. And at this time, I think we're gonna turn into um you're gonna go with the Family Justice Center client first and then the Home Builders Care Foundation. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Um, Mr. Tuff, you can introduce um, or I think you're introducing uh Dr. McCain to introduce the FC FJC client for us. Yes, I would like to, if we could turn to Dr. McCain. I know she's been on the call since the very beginning uh to uh make introductions and we'll have a special guest this afternoon to hear some information about what things look like from the inside. Um Dr. McCain. Are you still with us? I see um her here, but um I don't know if she's here here, but she's all right. We for another second to join the call. And then of course we have our second presentation, which may end up being our first presentation today. I know Miss McCain had another engagement, and I believe she was in the office, but I know that she was um on the call earlier and ready to go. Okay. Do you want to go to the oh uh there she is. Okay.