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With Valentine’s Day at its heart, February is all about love. February is also National Dating Violence Awareness Month. Women ages 18-24 are at the greatest risk of any group for being victims of intimate partner violence. Women In Distress is sponsoring The Love Campaign to educate young women that despite what they may have seen [...]
My cell phone rang yesterday right before my talk. It was A., a young survivor of dating violence. She left Miami a few weeks ago, gone away to college on a scholarship. Perfect timing. I asked her, what is the one thing you would tell the girls I’m going to talk to? Tell them to [...]
Remember this video from last year? We still have a situation on our hands, and Tara Sophia Mohr has organized another Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. Last year I focused on the situation for girls in the developing world. This year, especially since learning that according to U.S. Department of Justice statistics, young women in the [...]
