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 ...
Reflections on popular prevention videos from the Safe Passage Marketing Intern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8 I have actually viewed this video on multiple occasions in high school gym class or in different clubs/organizations I have been a part of. There has almost always been an ...
Today's blog post comes to us from our Children's Counselor, Jennifer King: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. In the children’s counseling program at Safe Passage we provide therapy and counseling for children who witness domestic violence and whose parents are ...
***Trigger warning: description of stalking. "And there you were, every account set to public. You want to be seen, heard, known. Of course, I obliged." - Joe Goldberg Joe Goldberg is a fictional character in Netflix's thriller series You, which released its second season ...
Melissa McGraw, Director of Counseling Services at Safe Passage What is Human Trafficking? In June several domestic violence staff attended a training on human trafficking in Springfield. Domestic violence and rape crisis centers are seeing more and more victims of human trafficking ...
January is National Stalking Awareness Month. How many of us would recognize the signs of stalking or feel confident that we'd know what to do? Do we think of stalking as a "James Bond-style" incident? A stranger in an unmarked ...
Content note: discussion of violent sexual assault and victim-blaming. . . . . . A student was violently sexually assaulted by an acquaintance this weekend at NIU (LINK to article). The student was working on a final project for school when the attacker stopped by, physically ...
