Who Has the Power?: Teen Wisdom for Transformative Change

A yellow and orange speech bubble with the words "The more I went to the Academy, the more I understood the people around me". with the Say Something Youth Initiative logo in the bottom left corner.

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…

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Mission 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…

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The Day of Joy

The words Safe Passage Day of Joy 2018 over a background of purple, blue, and green colors.

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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