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Where Community Grows: Stories of Volunteers Nurturing Care, Hope, and Possibility
REACH Volunteer Coordinator Maria Castañeda shares stories of how small acts of kindness from volunteers have a significant impact on the lives of survivors.
Last Call: How One Domestic Violence Survivor Found Healing Through Game Development
An interview with game developer Nina Freeman about how making her game, Last Call, helped her process the trauma of an abusive relationship.
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What Laura is Thinking: On Space
May 25, 2017I’m thinking about space. I’m sure that doesn’t come as a surprise. REACH is moving to new office
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What’s Changed since the Election for Immigrant Survivors?
May 18, 2017REACH’s work with immigrant survivors of domestic violence is nothing new. We have deep roots in Waltham, a
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The Psychological Toll of Hypervigilance
May 11, 2017For some people, the days and weeks since the new presidential administration took office have seemed to be
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How Proposed Changes to Health Care Could Affect DV Survivors
May 5, 2017By Colleen Armstrong, PEAR (Prevention, Education, Advocacy and Response) Program Coordinator at Salem State University and former Education
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Guest Post: Bystander Intervention
April 27, 2017This week’s post is a Q and A with our friend Gabriel Fontes, who interned with us last
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Volunteer Voices: “This was just the beginning”
April 21, 2017By Sumana The spring edition of REACH’s extended training for new staff and volunteers just concluded, and we
Read MoreSuicide and Abusers
March 30, 2017Anonymous For a while now, I have been supporting a friend whose sibling was in an abusive relationship.
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6 Different Types of Abuse
March 23, 2017The commonly held definition of abuse, which we use in all of our trainings, is “a pattern of
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Meet the 2017 Reach for the Stars Gala Co-Chairs
March 15, 2017Longtime REACH supporters Liz & Pete Carpenter and Pat & Clint Moon are this year’s Reach for the
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