Erin’s Law, a bill named after childhood sexual assault survivor Erin Merryn, mandatesall schools in Illinois educate their students on unhealthy relationships and sexual abusethrough preventative programs. We at Safe Passage are proud to offer these preventativeprograms to schools all ...
Would you rather be trapped in the woods with a man or a bear? This question has beencirculating TikTok, the social media app, for weeks. While it seems like a relatively innocentquestion at first, the nuance behind it has caused ...
On February 14th, 2011, Illinois was the first state to pass Erin’s Law. Erin’s Law was created by Erin Merryn, a sexual assault survivor, author, speaker, and activist. Erin’s Law requires that public schools implement a prevention-based child sexual abuse ...
Intimate partner violence- or IPV- is everywhere in the 21st century. We see it glorified all over social media, and it’s repeatedly seen in television shows, movies, books, and every other type of media that exist. While we can recognize ...
If you’ve ever been in an abusive relationship, you know that no one situation is the same as another. Unfortunately, however, in most abuse situations a cycle will repeat itself over and over until the survivor is ready to leave. ...
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I’ve always been curious as to why Inever heard about intimate partner violence within queer relationships. I always just assumedthat meant that there was less of it in queer spaces- that our ...
Sexual Assault Awareness has not only been limited to the month of April. Sexual Assault Awareness has been around for many years, even previous to the past 23 years when it was made an ‘official’ awareness month. Since the mid-1900s, ...
For the month of October, Safe Passage held a book club about the book It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover. Kirsti, Marketing & Community Outreach Specialist, and Shayna, Prevention Specialist & PAIP Facilitator, ran the discussion. “ was a ...
Click on the pictures on the infographic to learn more about each reason — more pictures will become live over the course of the week. Give DeKalb County Infograph by Nia Norris
Our agency has helped survivor's in the community for 40+ years. Our grassroots beginning started with community members bringing survivors into their homes. This was before the anti-violence movement was in full force, and before there was much legal protection ...
