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Willow Domestic Violence Center has won a grant -- one of only two in the state -- to establish a fellowship aimed at improving the services it provides…
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Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act into law.It allows judges to consider the trauma of domestic abuse when…
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ConnectionsWe sit down with a woman who wrote a book about how she survived her husband's attack during the summer of 2012. Jerri Lynn Sparks was the press secretary…
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ConnectionsFormer Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt is speaking out about a video that caught him getting into a physical altercation with a woman. Hunt…
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ConnectionsThe Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law in 1994 with bipartisan support. Co-authored by the late Louise Slaughter, it provides a…
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ConnectionsIn her book, “I Married a Sociopath,” writer and epidemiologist Sabrina Brown details decades of physical, verbal, and financial abuse by her ex-husband.…
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ConnectionsThe story of a Rochester police officer advising a man to break into the home of his estranged girlfriend has raised a number of questions about women’s…
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Congresswoman Louise Slaughter will spend the next several months fighting to reauthorize a law she says contributed to decreasing rates of domestic…
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ConnectionsReports of domestic violence in Monroe County are down for the sixth year in a row, but the rates are still higher than the state average. While there’s…
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ConnectionsLocal nurse Theresa Bowick is known for her work launching Conkey Cruisers, a bicycling and fitness organization. Now, she's opening up about her personal…