Check out photos below from WWAV’s Clotheline Project Collaboration with Xavier University for Domestic Violence Awareness Month! As we mentioned in our press release, The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence […]
Women With a Vision has partnered with Xavier University this October to celebrate Domestic Violence Awareness Month. On Tuesday, October 21st, Women With a Vision’s Gender-Based Violence Program Coordinator, Rebecca Atkinson, will be a speaker for a domestic violence seminar at Xavier University. As part of Xavier’s Annual Wellness Week, the university is hosting the […]
Women With a Vision, Inc. is launching Domestic Violence Awareness Month with a community dialogue for the Black community. Intimate partner violence and child abuse stories have been filling the media this fall. But what does domestic violence look like, and how do we break the silence about it in the Black community? In recognition […]
Women With a Vision’s Gender-Based Violence Coordinator, Rebecca Atkinson, wrote an Open Letter to Janay Rice, the wife of former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice. Janay’s story came to national attention earlier this month with the release of a video of Ray Rice abusing her in an elevator, igniting a national conversation and media fire-storm […]
Sexual violence is a very serious public health problem that affects millions of women and men. In the United States, 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men have been raped in their lifetime and nearly 1 in 2 women and 1 in 5 men have experienced other forms of sexual violence at some […]
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