Five Ways You Can Support Survivors During Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Originally published on Change.Org on April 15, 2017 By A.J. Walton and Joshunda Sanders. Eighteen-year-old Grace Watkins didn’t think she’d be subjected to further pain and humiliation soon after she was raped by a Notre Dame athlete while his friends filmed the violent attack. But that’s exactly what happened when…

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End 68 Hours of Hunger hosts High Stakes to End Hunger

End 68 Hours of Hunger is a nationwide program that is being run in Vacaville. It is a 100% volunteer organization that provides bags of food on a weekly basis to local children suffering from weekend food insecurity (children who don’t know where their next meal is coming from) between…

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“The most important thing I’ve learned about depression…”

Originally published on Option B on April, 2017 By Dior Vargas. My depression emerged when I was only six years old. It started after my dad abandoned my mom, my sister, and me. He was abusive to my mom, but I was still devastated when he left because we’d been…

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The Cost of Child Abuse in Solano County, CA as of 2017

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month and time to raise awareness about the importance of families and communities working together to prevent child abuse, and to support programs that work to prevent child abuse through strengthening family resilience, empowering children and families and educating the community. NEW Child Abuse…

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