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Restoring confidence, security, and independence to survivors of intimate partner violence.

Through survivor-led support, connection, and community partnership, we create pathways for survivors to rebuild confidence, strengthen independence, and move forward with greater choice.

Founded in September 2023.

Graceful Confidence is a survivor-led, volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We are virtual today, with a founding board we're actively growing. Some of our work happens through partnerships with licensed professionals.

We're early-stage and honest about it. Peer Support is our first developing project — see Where We Are Today for the full picture of what's operating now versus what we're building toward.

Six pillars. Six chairs at the table.

Graceful Confidence organizes its long-term work around six pillars — each built through partnership with practitioners and direct service providers, not delivered by Graceful Confidence alone.

Survivor-led, from the ground up.

Graceful Confidence is built and led by people with lived experience of intimate partner violence and the ongoing work of rebuilding afterward. That lived experience remains central to how this organization is built, how we listen, and how we walk alongside participants.

Meet our founder, Debbie Barentine →