Posts Tagged ‘community impact’
Volunteer Spotlight: Communications, Confidence & Compassion
Jules joined Safe Passage this summer to aid our communications efforts, including graphic design, content creation, editing, and more.
Read MoreCommunity Scholars Turning Theory to Action
This month, we’re highlighting our two amazing interns from UMass Amherst’s Community Scholars Program: Emily and Niamh!
Read MoreVolunteer Spotlight: Outreach for Social Change
This month, we’re highlighting the work of Peggy! A survivor of domestic violence herself, Peggy currently contributes time as an Outreach Assistant for our community education programs.
Read MoreVolunteer Spotlight: Engagement as Violence Prevention
This month, we’re highlighting and uplifting the work of our amazing volunteer, Yana! Yana currently contributes time as a Volunteer Program Assistant and was previously a Community Engagement Intern through the Community Scholars Program at UMass.
Read MoreWho Has the Power?: Teen Wisdom for Transformative Change
This Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, we sat down with a local high schooler in our youth prevention programming to get his own thoughts about his learning experiences in various parts of the program. A great deal of the Say Something Youth Initiative curriculum is focused around relationships—how to form and maintain healthy ones and how…
Read MoreMission Justice
At Safe Passage, we are on a mission. Whenever I think about our work, my memory brings up the line “your mission, if you choose to accept it…”. At the beginning of each episode of Mission Impossible, the main character receives a tape, a mission, and a choice. Throughout our 42 years of work, Safe Passage has…
Read MoreThe Day of Joy
Fleeing an abuser often means leaving a home, family, friends, and any sense of normalcy in a child’s life. For many survivors, leaving an abusive relationship comes with significant financial risk; at best they risk financial insecurity, and at worst they risk poverty. The holidays can be an especially difficult time of year when a…
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