by CDVA Team | Jun 20, 2024 | Story
One of this month’s awareness themes is to ‘Rebuild Your Life’. The idea is very important in the scope of Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) awareness. It is never too late to learn about CDV and discover what it means to you personally. It DID...
by CDVA Team | May 3, 2024 | Story
During National Teachers Day and Teachers Appreciation Week, we honor the transformative role of educators and the power of teaching to help others overcome Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV), including one teacher who has herself, triumphed over it. One person can...
by CDVA Team | Apr 19, 2024 | Story
World Book Day is an awareness event to encourage children to read. It’s also as good a day if you grew up with Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV) to do some reading. You’re an adult now, but that child inside you still bears a mark on you. This childhood...
by CDVA Team | Oct 23, 2023 | Story
One of our CDV Champions, Shirley Sanguino, has been writing blogs for us since she first provided her story back in January 2023. Her latest blog focuses on the idea of reconciliation with family after growing up with Childhood Domestic Violence (CDV). Can it be...
by CDVA Team | Sep 7, 2023 | Story
Artwork by Jolene Dames Jolene Dames is our most recent CDV Champion. As a child, she found a creative outlet to escape her harsh realities and traumas from living in a home with domestic violence, art. Although she may not have called it art therapy, it was at...
by CDVA Team | Jul 31, 2023 | Story
Diane Sammett grew up in a home with violence. Although she was not the recipient of it, her mother was, she understands now that living and seeing the violence has changed her life. When you grow up living with domestic violence, that’s Childhood Domestic Violence...