Submitted by Erin Rook, Development Outreach Coordinator, Saving Grace Saving Grace Seeks Participants for Advocacy Training Bend, OR– Saving Grace is currently accepting applications for its semi-annual advocacy training. This 40-hour training—held over three weeks in April—prepares volunteers to work directly with survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault seeking services from Saving Grace. […]
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Breaking the Cycle
Local programs aim to prevent domestic violence
Last Sunday, an estimated 114 million viewers tuned in to watch the Seahawks and the Patriots battle it out on the Super Bowl field. And many of those folks, on couches and barstools across the country, saw something they’d never seen before—a Super Bowl ad about domestic violence. While the ad has rightly received some […]
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Guest Column: Busting Common Myths About Domestic Violence
It was impossible to turn on the news or look at Facebook/Twitter feeds last month without news of NFL player Ray Rice knocking out his fiancée in a hotel elevator. The release of the videotape started a mass social media blitz #WhyIStayed, #WhyILeft where survivors of domestic violence spoke out about their choices. It seemed […]
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What in the World: Domestic Homicide, Missing Teen Found, Hackers and Spies
TRAGEDY: A man has been taken into custody following a three hour standoff with police Wednesday in Texas. He’s being held on charges he shot and killed four children and two adults at least some of whom are believed to be family members of his estranged wife, who he allegedly entered the Houston-area home looking for. The […]
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What in the World: World Cup, Beer Runs, “Columbusing,” Justice and Michael Jackson
SPORTS BALL: Holy melodrama, Batman. Maybe we just don’t get soccer/futball, but CNN’s lead headline (or maybe just soccer in general) seems a tad sensational, no? “Can U.S. survive ‘Group of Death’?” DUN DUN DUN… Under a subhead “Why should you care?” (thanks, CNN, some of us were definitely wondering) the article explains: “America can’t very well be […]