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May Rico, Executive Director of Haven Women’s Center of Stanislaus, Reflects on Shifting the Lens Conference Themes: Survivor Safety & Empowerment and Accountability & Redemption for People Who Harm
March 11-12, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA

May Rico, Executive Director of Haven Women’s Center of Stanislaus | Register for Shifting the Lens Today

“We work with survivors to heal the effects of abuse. We work with systems to change the societal attitudes that cause abuse to happen to begin with. But for people who choose to use violence? As a society, we throw them away or ignore what they did. We don’t know how to respond other than with one of those two extremes. Healing is not found in extremes. We have to find another way.

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Kristen Fiester, Mountain Crisis Services Program Director, discusses accountability ahead of Shifting the Lens Conference
March 11-12, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA

Kristen Fiester, Program Director at Mountain Crisis Services | Register for Shifting the Lens Today

“I believe that the only way we can stop the cycle of violence is by assisting the whole family when it is safe to do so.  By assisting only the survivor, we are missing a key person- the one that has done the harm; the one that needs education and support.  In many cases, the person that has done harm has been harmed themselves.

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Beverly Gooden, #WhyIStayed Creator, on Tony Porter’s upcoming discussion with Ray Rice at the Partnership’s Shifting the Lens Conference
March 11-12, 2019 in Los Angeles, CA

Beverly Gooden, #WhyIStayed Creator | Register for Shifting the Lens Today

“My journey to healing is ongoing. It’s included friends and family, therapists and counselors, living in homeless shelters and single-room occupancies, writing articles and speaking out publicly. But one thing I’ve never done is engage my ex-partners. I don’t want to open doors that have been intentionally closed. Do I think there is value in hearing directly from a man who has a history of violence? Yes.

Press release

Update on U.S. v. State of California Lawsuit

Last Wednesday, our coalition attended a federal court hearing in Sacramento to protect the California Values Act. As you may remember from our last statement, the federal government is seeking to block the Values Act, a high policy priority the Partnership worked to pass in 2017.