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New resource encourages communities to build coalitions to identify, tackle animal abuse NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ASPCA(®) (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(®)) and the National Link Coalition today launched the first-ever toolkit to help communities build coalitions to address the link between animal cruelty and human violence. The resource was developed by Dr. Randall Lockwood, senior vice president of ASPCA Forensic...
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Union activists with the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2157 will host its first ever Support Our Sisters (SOS) Purple and Pink Affair event on Oct. 27 to help raise awareness and support for victims and survivors of domestic violence and their families. SOS was created by AFGE District 11 National Women's Advisory Coordinator Amanda Schroeder and Oregon AFL-CIO Young Emerging Labor Leaders member, Kendra...
CHICAGO, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BeSmartBeWell.com is leading the way in health education, helping people manage common, largely preventable health issues through compelling, documentary-style videos. Research shows that video storytelling is effective at changing people's habits and behaviors, and a number of prominent health organizations are collaborating with BeSmartBeWell.com in order to further health education via this powerful medium. To view the multimedia assets...
ATLANTA, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday evening, Verizon Wireless presented Atlanta Police Chief George Turner with a 2012 HopeLine(®) Hero Award for his work against domestic violence and his support of victim assistance and survivor resource programs in the Atlanta area. The award was accompanied by a $2,500 Verizon HopeLine grant, to be given to a non-profit organization dedicated to domestic violence awareness and prevention chosen by Chief Turner. Deputy Chief John...
VENICE, Calif., Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A Window Between Worlds (AWBW), the only national nonprofit using art to help end domestic violence, is celebrating its 21(st) year of service to communities in Los Angeles and across the country. AWBW has experienced tremendous growth and is celebrating stepping into the next decade with new events and opportunities to get involved! To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click...
NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation today announced the Foundation will celebrate its tenth anniversary at its annual gala on Thursday, November 8 in New York City. All proceeds will benefit the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation and its goal of maintaining and expanding its comprehensive, in-school program, Margaret's Place. Talk show host Katie Couric will serve as Master of Ceremonies of the evening and Grammy Award-winning singer...
NEW YORK, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Verizon Foundation has launched a new domestic violence awareness campaign that seeks to engage and empower men to speak up and be part of the solution to end the violence. The Your Voice Counts campaign is designed to help men, women and communities to start talking about domestic violence and bring this often silent issue out into the open. "Silence is a large part of the problem surrounding domestic violence," said Verizon Foundation...
BOSTON, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness month, Abine, Inc., the leading online privacy company, announced a new partnership today with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) to support domestic violence victims in their need to protect their private information. The partnership will benefit the organization's members, employees, partners and affiliated domestic violence organizations across the country, and will provide discounted...
CHICAGO, Oct. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), the nation's largest customer-owned health insurer, and Loveisrespect, the ultimate source of support for young people to prevent and end dating abuse, announce an initiative to educate one million teens on teen dating abuse and prevention. HCSC, operator of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans in Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, and Loveisrespect's new collaboration will reduce the growing...
SILVER SPRING, Md., Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This past Sunday, California Governor Brown signed into law legislation that allows new sentencing and parole hearings for women incarcerated for killing their abusers. At these new hearings, judges and parole boards will have to take a victim's history of abuse into account. This is thanks in large part Brenda Clubine, a former inmate whose group Convicted Women Against Abuse was documented in the film Sin by Silence, which...
