by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
For two days a week – Monday and Thursday – School Counselor Brett Welch can be found greeting students as they arriving to class in Harvie Elementary School in VA. She carefully examines the young faces as they walk in for signs of distress. According to Welch, “The...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Last October, the New Mexico Voices for Children hosted their second annual KIDS COUNT Conference, in conjunction with Ngage New Mexico. Aptly named “Childhood Trauma: From Symptoms to Systems Change” the conference aimed to build awareness for, identify...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Childhood Domestic Violence is the last unknown, unnamed, unaddressed major childhood adversity of 10 major Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) that researchers agree can have a profound, defining impact on a life. Although it impacts an estimated 1 in 7 people and...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Are you a child of domestic violence? How do you know? This may be the first time you’re coming across the words “child of domestic violence”. You may be wondering what these words really mean or if you might be one. This question may have never entered your mind...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Most people have heard the words domestic violence. They know what it is, or at the very least, they are aware it exists.When we say “domestic violence” the words that most typically come to mind are women, abuse, pain, and violence. Children rarely come to mind. Less...
