by CDVA Team | Apr 20, 2021 | Blog
Mary Ann Hansen, director of First 5, a nonprofit that supports early childhood development, grew up in Humboldt County and has deep connections with helping families in her community overcome adversity – a daunting task as Humboldt’s rates of Adverse Childhood...
by CDVA Team | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog
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...
by CDVA Team | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
Kids that 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 instructional assistant at an elementary...
by CDVA Team | Feb 4, 2021 | Blog
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 University conducted a survey study with over 100 Ohio agencies to...
by CDVA Team | Oct 3, 2019 | Blog
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 – for...
by CDVA Team | Jul 25, 2019 | Blog
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 homes. He cites many well-documented findings regarding the...
