by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
By CDVThose who have never experienced domestic violence may sometimes question why a child would stay silent when living in such a home. Children don’t usually talk about it, though. They are afraid they may get into trouble. Or they fear that one of their parents...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
By CDV From Brian F. Martin BLOG (http://brianfmartin.com/2015/02/01/the-chilling-911-call-you-wont-hear-during-the-super-bowl) A friend who works with me at www.cdv.org texted me the link to a domestic violence ad that will run during the Super Bowl and said, “Watch...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
I grew up living with domestic violence. So did my mom. So did her mom. So did 40 million other adults in the US. So I asked some of them, “In your life, can you remember a time when domestic violence was more talked about?” They all said, “No, never.” Then I asked,...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Did you know that growing up facing adversity in your childhood home can have a lasting impact on your life that extends well into your adult years? Adversity can negatively impact brain development. This can cause us to struggle with our relationships, emotions,...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
Last week, I had a chance to speak with young men and women who just graduated; some from high school and some from college. They all had one thing in common — they grew up facing adversity in their childhood homes. They also shared one other common bond — they were...
by CDVA Team | Jun 25, 2024 | Awareness
On January 1st, California became the first U.S. state to begin formally screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) – early childhood adversities faced in a child’s home, including abuse, neglect, CDV, etc, that can have profound and defining impact on a...
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
This may be the first time you’re coming across the words “child of domestic violence”. You may be wondering what these words mean or if you might be one of them. This question may have never entered your mind until now. But now that you’ve seen these words in this...
