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Community Health and Domestic Violence
In the Alliance office, we are frequently thinking about ways to become healthier, physically and mentally. We try to eat healthy; our Friday potlucks generally consist of lentils, vegetables, gluten free pasta, mostly sugar free food, you know- healthy stuff. Also on our Potluck Fridays, we have a staff meeting where we begin by talking about what we are grateful for – a way to keep our outlook positive, then end with a bit of self care so none of get overwhelmed from the difficult work we do to end Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. We are aware of our physical and emotional health and we try to take care…
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Training Opportunity
On March 31, 2014, the Alliance will be offering a three hour training for volunteers, community partners and anyone interested in improving their response to victims of abuse. The topics to be covered will be: The Batterer as Parent – including how a batterer interacts with his children and the other parent as a victim. Domestic Violence and Children- what happens to a child when exposed to domestic violence? Sexual Assault- an overview including statistics, effect on the victim, drug facilitated rape. Drugs, Alcohol and Domestic Violence– does drinking cause violence? How victims cope and how it increases lethality. The training will begin at 9:00am and end at 12:00pm and…
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Challenge for Community Compassion
While working on the computer, doing research for an article, I have also been reading some of the Face Book sites, where people can talk about the crime that has been happening in our area. I see a lot of people complaining, wanting to run people out of town, put them in jail, or worse, they would like to see something bad happen to them. Some of the posters would like to be the ones doing the bad things to people. It shocks me that people would intentionally place “booby traps” to intentionally hurt or kill someone over a little stolen gas. I wonder where priorities lie. As I read…
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Spring is Almost Sprung!
Spring is on it’s way and although the ground is still wet from all the rain we have had lately (thank goodness), it is time to start thinking about all the wonderful veggies we plan to plant. Just looking at the Territorial seed catalog makes me hungry for some Zebra tomatoes. Ah… the arugula, and the thyme. Oh No! there’s not enough room to plant everything we want to plant! Le sigh… enter the community garden. Yay! More room to plant the exotic parsnips and the heirloom tomatoes, oh, and someplace that the deer won’t eat all our prize zucchini! The Safe House Alliance has garden plots! Although we are not in the building directly…
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February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
What is Teen Dating Violence? Teen dating violence is a pattern of physically, sexually, verbally and/ or emotionally abusive behavior in a dating relationship. Physical Abuse Any intentional, unwanted contact with the other person’s body. Physical abuse does not have to leave a bruise or a mark. Examples: Scratching Shoving Pinching Pulling Hair Kicking Biting Burning Strangling Using a weapon Sexual Abuse Any sexual behavior that is unwanted or interferes with the other person’s right to say “no” to sexual advances Examples: Unwanted kissing or touching Date Rape Forcing someone to go further sexually than he or she wants to Unwanted rough or violent sexual activity Not letting someone use birth control…
