New Jersey’s Pioneering Efforts New Jersey, under the New Jersey Department of Children and Families (DCF), is the first state in the nation to launch an Office of Resiliency. Its goal is to create a community-driven statewide plan to combat major adverse childhood...
How CDV Impacts Home and School Life Kids who experience childhood domestic violence and other adversities at home often prefer school to being at home, and many join various extracurricular activities to delay the inevitable even longer. Adrian Tucker, now an...
Young Children Often Most Impacted by Exposure to Domestic Violence According to the CDC, each year more than 6% of all children in the US are exposed to domestic violence. And strikingly, among the most affected by are the youngest. In 2020, Case Western Reserve...
This tragic story depicts the devastating culmination of a domestic violence incident and the extensive history of it in the household that led to the death of a 17-year old boy attempting to protect his mother. The consequences of such events are devastating...
The Profound Impact of Growing Up With Domestic Violence In this article in Psychology Today, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Blake Griffin Edwards paints a vivid picture of how domestic violence impacts the “unintended victims” – the children in these...
