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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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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
Read MoreWhat Laura is Thinking: Men and Masculinity
March 8, 2017I am thinking about men and masculinity. I attended the 10th Annual White Ribbon Day event in Boston
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Teen Voices: What TDVAM Is All About
February 24, 2017This week’s guest blog post is from Janiah, one of the Peer Leaders in the PAVE (Peers Against
Read MoreSurvivor Voices: The Importance of Saying No
February 16, 2017This week’s post is a guest post from Survivor M, a member of our Survivor Speakers Bureau. As
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