by CDVA Team | Mar 3, 2017 | Blog
“If it’s something that you can prevent, then…you’re learning from your past what not to do with your child,” said Cindy Lau, Regional Violence Prevention Planner, St. Mary Corwin. The SCAN Program at Southern Colorado Family Medicine at the...
by CDVA Team | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog
“Childhood domestic violence (CDV) gets lumped together with domestic violence and/or child abuse…It’s a real distinct and separate childhood adversity.” -Dr. Linda Olson, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, Chairwoman of our Georgia Chapter Read this...
by CDVA Team | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog
Discovering LOVE after Childhood Domestic Violence: Giving and Receiving Love is at the Heart of Reaching Your Full Potential Valentine’s Day is a holiday intended to reaffirm our love for others and their love for us. But, for those of us who grow up experiencing...
by CDVA Team | Jan 19, 2017 | Blog
Poet Tre Wharton used his talent to cope with CDV by expressing in verse what living with his stepfather’s violence was like. This poem is just one of about forty poems he wrote about CDV in his new book Grown Folk Business. A Daughter’s Perspective The door shuts...
by CDVA Team | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog
By Tina Shelton A first year medical student at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) decided to share her story of growing up with domestic violence, recounting a night in her household as a childhood. Although she chose to remain anonymous, she allowed...
