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April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month United in Action: Creating an Inclusive Culture of Support, Healing, through Systemic Change. Join us for one or all of our events this year! what we do 73% Increase in Services since 2019 190+ Akron Children's Hospital CARE Center visits [...]
Intersectionality and Survivorship
As summer comes to a close, we have many awareness months and days to reflect on. Pride Month, Mental Health Liberation Month, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and many more. We must consider the intersectionality of survivors and their identities, and how this impacts them moving through multiple systems, access [...]
Trauma Responses
When our body feels unsafe, our brain takes automatic steps to protect us. That reaction can vary from person to person, from time to time. Most of us have heard of the fight or flight response. Our adrenaline forces us to run from danger or fight against it, a natural survival tactic. However, these are [...]
Target Circle, Gives Back!
We are honored and excited to announce that Battered Women’s Shelter has been chosen to participate in a special charitable giving campaign, sponsored and funded by Target. And you have the chance to help direct a portion of Target’s donation to us! Now through September 30th, vote for us through the Target Circle program to [...]
HOPE & HEALING’S EQUIPPING SURVIVORS INITIATIVE
  GIVE here today! Hope & Healing’s Equipping Survivors Initiative is a fundraising campaign in which we equip survivors with a new Household Starter Kit as they leave the Battered Women’s Shelter. These Household Starter Kits cost $200 each and we are in need 300 of these Starter Kits to help our [...]
The Intricacy of Firearms and Intimate Partner Violence
Violence has played a perpetual role in our society and civilization. Settler colonialism, the mass transportation and exploitation of enslaved individuals, and systematic oppression continue within today’s society, often unnoticed and unacknowledged. The violence that individuals face in their intimate partner relationships is paramount to the insistency of societal violence and lack of accountability for [...]
June is Pride Month!
Pride month is a time for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, and Queer community to be proud of who they are and tell the stories of those who brought us the freedom to be who we are. Historically, the LGBTQ community were forced to keep their identities private for fear of discrimination on a personal [...]
Sexual Assault Awareness Month Comes to a Close
Where did the month go?! April is coming to an end and our Sexual Assault Awareness Month was filled with educational trainings, awareness events and important conversations. We want to thank everyone who participated in our events and supported us financially. We would love to keep up this momentum all year long! It is crucial [...]
It Takes a Community to End Sexual Violence
Sexual Assault Awareness Month is recognized nationally as a time to raise awareness about the vastly under-reported, but all too common prevalence of sexual violence in our world. Thankfully, over the years there has been growing support for these survivors with the formation of local, state and national organizations that also seek to educate the [...]