Source: Hannah Critchfield, NC HEALTH NEWS, 2/4/21


It was a call with a clear plan of action. The woman on the phone, a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe in northeastern North Carolina, was ready to leave her abusive partner. She needed a place to stay. So Karen Franco, a victim advocate at the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs and herself a member of the tribe, contacted a local shelter on her behalf. The shelter had room, despite crowding after outbreaks shuttered other safe homes nearby. The woman would need to test negative for the novel coronavirus before she could come, a staffer told Franco.

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