Heroes Fighting Domestic Violence

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  Teaching Kids to Be Brave

  Following the murder of her friend, Project BRAVE founder wants domestic violence education to start earlier | When you’re lucky enough to live near your friends, you... read more

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  Yoga Instructor Brings Healing to One Shelter

  Free classes offered for survivors, staff and volunteers | Yoga instructor Ashleigh Gurtler knows the power of a good downward dog. The 30-year-old from New York Ci... read more

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  Growing a Better Life

  GreenHouse17 helps survivors find their independence again, one harvest at a time | GreenHouse17 is a domestic violence shelter in Kentucky with a twist. In additio... read more

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  Girls Fight Back

  Self-defense is about much more than physical moves, says one group | In 2001, 21-year-old college student Shannon McNamara was brutally raped and killed during a v... read more

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  Positioned to Help

  Cut It Out teaches salon professionals how to recognize signs of domestic violence | Brigid Cox, 55, grew up as one of 13 children in what she calls a strictly disc... read more

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  Survivors Shop Free

  Ohio thrift store helps survivors of domestic abuse get a fresh start | When a domestic violence survivor decides to leave their abuser, furnishing his or her new h... read more

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  Movers Help Domestic Violence Survivors Get Out

  Meathead Movers has done the heavy lifting for 300 survivors free of charge | Brothers Aaron and Evan Steed founded Meathead Movers in 1997 in Southern California w... read more

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  Free Tattoos for Survivors

  Tattoo artist uses her talent to cover scars for survivors of abuse | Brazilian tattoo artist Flavia Carvalho is turning trauma into art by offering her inking skil... read more

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  I Helped Open One of the First Women's Shelters

  What’s gotten better, worse since the movement to end domestic violence began in the ‘70s | In October 1974 in St. Paul, Minn., Women’s Advocates, Inc., opened the do... read more

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  When Georgia Smiled

  Robin McGraw talks to DomesticShelters.org about her foundation | You may know Robin McGraw as the tough-love, advice-giving, right-hand-woman of Phil McGraw, of Dr. ... read more

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  Stylist to the Survivors

  Celeb stylist Sam Russell knows confidence can be found through clothes | Celebrity stylist Sam Russell is often bestowed with designer fashions us mere mortals are ra... read more