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Risk vs. Reward: What Prevents us from Preventing Gender-based Violence?
I challenge all of us to think about the ways we can actively confront attitudes and beliefs that permit violence to occur to so many people. How do we play a role in shifting our company or community norms to silently condoning imbalances of power and gender-based violence to a community that loudly and emphatically condemns it? How do we create communities- or perhaps even a world- where people are held accountable with compassion and survivors are believed and supported.
Loving an Abuser: How I navigated the harsh realization that my friend was an abuser
I didn’t want to believe that he was capable of hurting someone. I also didn’t want to believe that I was capable of loving someone who could be an abuser.
Want to help the teen(s) in your life? Start now.
We all deserve to have healthy relationships, no matter our age. We all have the capacity to learn and develop skills to enable us to promote and embody healthy relationships. If we want young people to have safe and healthy relationships, we, the adults- the ones with the power- need to take responsibility for our own learning and healing. In doing so, we can create the space and opportunities necessary for young people to create meaningful and long-lasting change.