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Designers & Creative Teams Against Domestic Violence

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Designers & Creative Teams Against Domestic Violence

A 501(c)(3) Nonprofit organization
For a Present Without Violence
We Walk Together To Facilitate Life

04/23/2025

COURAGE

Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s the decision to move forward despite it.
Fear doesn’t make you weak. It makes you human. Courage is what rises in you when fear tells you to stay quiet, stay hidden, stay small — but your soul says, “Go.”

Courage is choosing to leave, even when you don’t know what’s on the other side. It’s making the call, asking for help, saying “This isn’t love.” It’s walking into a shelter with nothing but hope.
It’s showing up to heal. Again and again.

Every step counts.
Whether it’s the first step away from abuse or the hundredth toward a new future — every act of courage matters. At DCTADV, we witness courage every day: survivors walking through our doors, creatives raising their voices, teams designing campaigns that break silence and build hope.

To our creative community:
You are part of this story. Your designs, your words, your platforms can help normalize courage — not just for survivors, but for entire communities.

Use your voice to say:
• It’s okay to be scared — you can still leave.
• You’re not alone — there is a way out.
• Courage looks different for everyone — and all of it is valid.

At DCTADV, our mission is to give survivors the tools and support they need to rebuild their lives through creativity, education, and emotional empowerment.
Our vision is a world where courage is not just celebrated, but nurtured.

If you’re a survivor, or love someone who is:
• Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
• Text “START” to 88788
• Visit www.dctadv.org/resources for more support

If you’re a creative ready to make a difference:
• Partner with us
• Contribute to our campaigns
• Mentor a survivor
• Design for a cause that matters

Because one design, one message, one act of courage… can change a life. Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org

04/23/2025

STRENGTH
You are stronger than the storm you survived.
Strength isn’t just about surviving the pain — it’s about what comes after. It’s about waking up each day and choosing to keep going, even when your heart is heavy and your voice still shakes.
Strength is rising again, even with trembling hands.
It’s rebuilding your life piece by piece after it’s been broken down. It’s saying “I matter” in a world that once made you feel invisible. It’s reclaiming your power, your worth, your dreams.
At DCTADV, we believe that survivors are not victims — they are warriors. Many of them have experienced unimaginable pain, but they’ve turned that pain into purpose. Through our programs in design, fashion, marketing, and mentorship, they are now rebuilding their lives by creating, learning, and leading.
For designers and creative teams, this is your invitation:
Lend your strength. Stand beside survivors. Use your art, your voice, your creativity to show that strength doesn’t always look loud or perfect — sometimes, it looks like quiet resilience. Like asking for help. Like telling your story. Like creating a campaign that saves a life.
Let your work be part of someone’s healing. Design with intention. Share with empathy. And remind others — especially survivors — that their strength is real, powerful, and worthy of celebration.
Resources for survivors:
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence:
Call the National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)

Visit: www.dctadv.org

Join the movement:
Help us create spaces of strength and healing through design.
Follow us | Share our message | Be the voice that empowers.
Contact us 📱 754.205.0923

04/18/2025

“Even if you don’t speak the language, love, learning, and purpose are universal.”

At Karnna Fashion Lab, we welcome volunteers from all over the world.
Through our Sewing Your Future program, you’re not just helping others — you’re gaining powerful new skills in sewing, creativity, and compassion.

This program is open to all — not just survivors, but anyone who wants to learn fashion, grow professionally, and be part of something meaningful.

By helping, you are healing. And by learning, you are empowering. Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

04/18/2025

At Designers & Creative Teams Against Domestic Violence, we believe that together, we are more.
When women gather to share their stories, offer support, and uplift each other, we create powerful change.
Speaking your truth is healing. Testimony is strength.
As a survivor and advocate, I’m Karina Milagros — and for years I’ve walked beside women in group therapy, helping them find their voice.
Today, through our programs, I continue this mission:
To help every woman know she is not alone, she is seen, and she has the right to speak. Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

04/18/2025

This place changed how I see fashion and myself. Sewing Your Future gave me tools, community, and a deeper purpose.”

At Karnna Fashion Lab, our volunteers don’t just give time — they receive healing, skills, and self-discovery.

Through art and craft therapies, we help participants reconnect with their talents, rebuild self-worth, and communicate with confidence, breaking the cycles of silence and abuse.

Here, fashion becomes healing.
Join us. Learn. Heal. Empower others Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

04/18/2025

In our Sewing Your Future program at Karnna Fashion Lab, we do more than teach sewing.
We create safe spaces where young people, women, and even children come to learn, heal, and grow.

Through our bootcamps, participants develop practical sewing skills while also engaging in self-esteem and emotional healing therapies.
Each stitch carries strength, each design holds a story.
This is where healing meets purpose, and fashion becomes transformation. Becoming a volunteer will provide you with a beautiful experience and the opportunity of help others. Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

Stitching Emotions, Sewing New Beginnings ☮️

04/18/2025

FLOURISHING
One day, without warning,
you wake up and something feels… softer.
Not easier, not gone—just lighter.
The body remembers joy.
The soul remembers how to stretch toward light.
And you, wrapped in your own arms,
begin to feel like home.
You speak to yourself like a mother would a child:
You did not deserve the pain,
but you deserve everything that comes after it.
The petals come slowly.
The roots run deep.
You are no longer waiting to be rescued.
You are becoming.
A Creative Soul! We are here to support, guide, mentor, love and provide with strategies. Stop 🛑 Domestic Violence, start today. Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org

04/18/2025

Creativity heals. “Acrylic 🎨 Paint Classes”
In our artistic and craft therapy sessions, students express emotions, explore their talents, and reconnect with themselves.

At Karnna Fashion Lab, we don’t just teach techniques — we offer mental health support, self-awareness tools, and a community of care.

Our training helps people:
• Understand their inner voice
• Value themselves deeply
• Communicate with assertiveness and boundaries

This is how we break cycles. This is how we stop attracting abuse — by knowing who we are.
Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org

04/16/2025

SELF
TYou are not alone.
Domestic violence can leave invisible scars—on the heart, the mind, and the soul. But healing is possible. A new life is possible. You are possible.
At DCT Against Domestic Violence, we are here to walk beside you, not just through survival, but into transformation.
You are valuable. You are loved. You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to discover your strength, your voice, your creativity—your self.
Through our programs, we support survivors with compassion, skills, and community. We offer a space where you can heal, grow, and begin again. Whether you need help or want to help, there’s a place for you here.
Become a volunteer. Get support. Build a new future.
Visit www.dctadb.org and take the first step today.
You don’t have to go back.
You don’t have to stay silent.
You are allowed to begin again.
And we are here—with open arms.
here are days when even standing feels like a war.
When the mirror shows a face you’ve carried through fires
but no longer recognize.
You breathe, not to be brave,
but because it’s all you can do.
You carry silence in your chest like a stone.
Not because you want to,
but because you had to.
Still—here you are.
Not whole, not loud,
but alive.
And that’s enough to begin.
I being in your shoes, I was a Survivor and today I stand as a Creator! Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

04/16/2025

You are not alone.

Domestic violence can leave invisible scars—on the heart, the mind, and the soul. But healing is possible. A new life is possible. You are possible.

At DCT Against Domestic Violence, we are here to walk beside you, not just through survival, but into transformation.

You are valuable. You are loved. You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to discover your strength, your voice, your creativity—your self.

Through our programs, we support survivors with compassion, skills, and community. We offer a space where you can heal, grow, and begin again. Whether you need help or want to help, there’s a place for you here.

Become a volunteer. Get support. Build a new future.
Visit www.dctadb.org and take the first step today.

You don’t have to go back.
You don’t have to stay silent.
You are allowed to begin again.
And we are here—with open arms. Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

04/16/2025

LOVE
Not the love that asks you to shrink.
Not the kind that leaves you empty.
Not the version you were taught to chase.
This love is quiet.
It doesn’t scream, it doesn’t beg.
It just stays.
It holds you when you break.
It dances with you when you rise.
It whispers, “I choose you,”
every single day.
Not because you’re perfect.
But because you are yours.
Fully. Fiercely. Finally.
Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org

04/14/2025

Designing Healing: From Imagination to Empowerment
At DCTADV, our Sewing Your Future program begins with a pencil and a dream. Here, survivors learn the art of technical design—transforming their ideas into sketches, and their sketches into possibilities.
Every line on paper is more than a design—it’s a step away from pain and a step toward empowerment. Our students are survivors, learning to express their voice through fashion.
For over four years, we’ve witnessed transformation through creativity, confidence, and community.
If you’re a survivor in need of support, or someone ready to give back—visit www.dctadv.org to apply for help or join us as a volunteer.
Contact us 📱 754.205.0923
Www.dctadv.org. 💜

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Boca Raton, FL
33487

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://www.dctadv.org/

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“SEWING YOUR FUTURE” (In times of Pandemic and COVID-19).

MESSAGE FROM KARINA GOMEZ-HERRERA, CEO

Dearest friends,

My deepest message of love and condolence to all those who have lost a family member or friend to COVOD-19.

On behalf of my company KARNNA FASHION & COMPANY and the DESIGNERS AND CREATIVE TEAMS Foundation, AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE I address you, first of all, to send you a greeting full of respect, admiration and love for our heroes of the Health Guild and all those collaborators who voluntarily help in this crisis that lies in wait for us.

KF&C is a family company, aware of the crisis that confronts our planet. We work creatively to offer you a source of income in times of crisis, which also allows you to remain protected in your homes, taking advantage of quarantine in a productive way.

Here you will find our information:

– www.karnnafashionlab.com

– www.dctadv.org

In these uncertain circumstances, in this time of danger in our lives, I wish to share with you an initiative that emerged several months ago. Because this is the time when we must support and help each other as souls and human beings.

INVITATION I want to invite you to be part of our “SEWING YOUR FUTURE” Program.

With this initiative we hope to be able to be part of the livelihood of our community and be a support so that the American workforce that we have lost over the years returns to us and thus, raises our country up.

If you need help to support your family and you want to join us in this Program, contact us … we are at your service.

And always remember: “We are souls who came to love unconditionally despite any crisis we are going through.” Crises are opportunities and today we have the greatest one.

“We help make your present by SEWING YOUR FUTURE”

Thank you and God bless us!

KARINA GOMEZ-HERRERA – President / CEO Karnna Fashion Preneur – Founder of Designers and Creative Teams, Against Domestic Violence.

WHO IS IT FOR? For those who need a main or additional source of income to cope with the Coronavirus COVID-19 through a work at home job.

TARGET

Create a productive activity at home, developed during the time of quarantine and obtain income that helps your family’s economy during confinement.

STRATEGY

** FREE ** PRODUCTIVE RESOURCES. We intend to provide, free of charge, all the necessary resources to make essential protective clothing and accessories for health professionals.

WHAT DO THE RESOURCES INCLUDE?

1) Short, guided, distance sewing courses, 2) Basic package including sewing machine and tools 3) Textile materials and accessories

WORK METHOD

1) Registration of those interested in the Program 2) Learning through video tutorials and video conferences 3) Delivery of the Basic Package and materials to the interested party 4) Assignment of sewing work 5) Review and pick-up of finished products 6) Online payment

LOGISTICS

Karnna Fashion & Company coordinates the Registration, the delivery of the equipment and the distribution of the merchandise to facilitate the participant to remain in the safety of their own home avoiding the risk of contamination.

PLEASE CONTACT US

CONTACT karina@dctadv.org Telephone: 754.205.0923