I started providing healthy relationship education to students in middle and high schools over 20 years ago. I talked to …
As a survivor of sexual and intimate partner violence, I know that crisis services aren’t a luxury; they’re essential for …
For the past several years, the anti-violence movement has questioned its reliance on law enforcement and policing as a pathway …
I didn’t understand how gender-based violence plagued my family until after I joined the movement. I have seen with my …
A while back my mother gave me a box of things from my childhood. It was filled to the brim …
My name is Dominique Waltower and I am a motivational speaker and Violence Prevention Advocate. My presentation is from a very different …
As I strive to be an anti-racist, I keep reminding myself of something Brené Brown said: “I’m here to get it …
Las Vegas, Nevada circa 1992. I was 17 when I met him. In the rooms of a 12-step program. Scared. …
Domestic violence affects everyone, across racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender expression, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic levels. That being said, domestic violence …
What is Positive Solutions? While the COVID-19 pandemic presented unique challenges to the way we at Monarch Services traditionally run our programs and …
There is a right of passage Black women go through before reaching adulthood – we realize that people may treat …
I wish I could say I am the first person in my family to be affected by domestic violence, but …
I love what I do. Leading the Partnership’s policy team, I get to work closely with our entire membership, our …
I worked at a state sexual violence coalition in the northeastern part of the United States for two years. I …
I’m Christine Smith. I’m an enrolled member of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians, and descended from the Kashia Band …
Intent is different than impact. And both are important. Working to become a white ally is not a task to be taken lightly. You …
Domestic violence has been defined as a pattern of coercive, aggressive, and violent behavior and California laws make it a …
I grew up being told that we were the good, non-racist white people, unlike those bad, racist white people (often …
I’ll start by saying I know writing this piece in no way makes me ‘better’ than any other white person. …
“———it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see …
