Youth Football Coaches Tackle Violence Issue Head On

Dec. 1, 2014 / By CSULB Enterprise Reporters
Tags: Domestic Violence, Sports

National athletes have been in the spotlight, igniting conversations across the nation about whether high-contact sports cultivate a culture of violence. In Long Beach, some local football coaches are choosing to address the violence issue directly.

Why Won’t My Friend Leave her Abusive Boyfriend?

Mar. 17, 2014 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Abuse, Domestic Violence, Teen Abuse, Youth Voices

KARLA MARTINEZ/Coachella Uninc

When I spotted a bruise on my friend “Anna,” I didn’t need to ask her how it got there...

Long Beach Raises Awareness for Teen Dating Violence

Feb. 28, 2013 / By Diana Cardenas
Tags: Domestic Violence, Long Beach, teens, Violence against Women, Youth

When 21-year old Long Beach resident, Jenny, first started attending weekly meetings at the WomenShelter to support her mother who was a domestic violence survivor, she didn’t know she was in a violent relationship of her own...

Undocumented and Abused: One Woman’s Story

Dec. 7, 2012 / By Diana Cardenas
Tags: Domestic Violence, Health, Long Beach, Violence against Women, Women

When Ana Del Valle* arrived to the United States from Morelos, Mexico in the late 1980s to reunite with her husband in Los Angeles, she left behind everything and everyone she had known: her daughter, her sisters, her mother, and her country...

DA Launches Program for Immigrant Victims of Domestic Violence

Oct. 16, 2011 / By New America Media
Tags: Domestic Violence, Undocumented Immigrants

 

New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Oct 05, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO – District Attorney George Gascón yesterday reached out to members of the ethnic media here to announce his office’s launch of a program that seeks to help victims of domestic violence within immigrant communities...