Heroes Fighting Domestic Violence

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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