Adversity Can Break You, Or It Can Make You Invincible
Andrew Bret WallisJanice Holly Booth discusses CDV, INVINCIBLE, and the Resentment, Loneliness, and Fear lies with founder Brain F. Martin on the AARP website. In this interview, Brian discusses the lies associated with Childhood Domestic Violence: 1. that you are a...
CDV, Nick News with Linda Ellerbee Program Receives Emmy Nomination
Special about Childhood Domestic Violence Accomplishes Three Critical Goals Read the Hollywood Reporter article We could not be more honored to have had the opportunity to work with Nickelodeon in the creation of the Nick News with Linda Ellerbee...
CDV & Nickelodeon’s Emmy Nominated Children’s Program Spotlights Childhood Domestic Violence
“It was very unpredictable, we didn’t know what to expect…I believe my mom stayed because she wanted to make it work.” – Chelsea Waldroup“When my parents would fight, to me that was normal because I didn’t know what a normal parent was at the time.” – Emily...
Our Award-Winning Documentary about Children and Domestic Violence Makes International Debut
The Children Next Door Screening at Prestigious Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in GreeceThe Children Next Door, an Award-Winning documentary sponsored by Children of Domestic Violence and released last fall, made its international debut at the prestigious...
The circular impact of ACEs, education, and long-term health
“The field of public health recognizes education is a social determinant of health” says Shanta Dube, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Georgia State University and CDVA Georgia Chapter Board member. Health studies have shown that U.S. adults who faced Adverse Childhood...
How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris
Pediatrician Nadine Burke began to see patterns among the children she treated in her practice. She noticed a large percentage of children coming in with the same symptoms and false diagnosis. As a doctor with a string commitment to public health, she began to look...
Bad childhood experiences can make us unhealthy
By Daniel WeintraubDaniel Weintraub of the Sacramento Bee recaps the ACE study, and discusses its widening influence in the medical community. When it first came out, very little about medical practice was adjusted. Now doctors will discuss ACE's with their patients,...
Child Abuse Facts
Source: Safe HorizonVarious statistics about child abuse.Read more HERE.
How Does CDV- Childhood Domestic Violence – Impact a Life?
Childhood domestic violence is what happens to any person who grows up in a home living with domestic violence in their childhood. UNICEF calls it “one of the most pervasive human rights issues of our time.”Domestic violence from a childhood standpoint is when there...
The Impact Adversity in Your Childhood Home Has on Your Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
By Brian F. Martin, Author of INVINCIBLEOur founding fathers believed everyone was "endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This principle also applies to anyone who grew up facing adversity...