Sentences with phrase «as abuse survivors»

I work with children, adolescents, teens and adults with mood disorders, behavioral problems, emotional disturbance, impaired social functioning as well as abuse survivors (mental, physical, neglect, financial, medical, educational) and perpetrators.»

Following former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice's termination, hashtag #WhyIStayed, began trending on Twitter, as abuse survivors took to the micro-blogging platform to share their stories.

As an abuse survivor, I know firsthand what it's like to suffer from PTSD.

Not exact matches

As a board member of the Center for Community Solutions, a San Diego - based nonprofit serving survivors of domestic violence and relationship abuse, I have seen firsthand the positive influence sustainable philanthropy can have on an organization.

Again and again, pledges that have been repeatedly violated were described as realities that are undeniable,» said Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, outreach director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

As a survivor of abuse as a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very truAs a survivor of abuse as a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very truas a child in a missionary boarding school I believe what he said was very true.

As a sexual abuse survivor, the last year has been excruciating.

Thank you for anyone who has the courage to apologize — the one thing I'd ask moving forward is that you don't qualify your apology by citing what the survivor of emergent abuse (I like this term better than victim) did or did not do — as we've noted before, when someone is in the throes of prolonged abuse and trauma, they will do / say things in response that will seem somewhat «batshit crazy.»

As a spiritual abuse survivor, it's been my observation that splitting these two now inevitably leads to trouble later.

I have found this to work for victims and survivors as well with the enabling of healing and freeing from fear, to have a voice which is then conducive to the establishment of healthy boundaries and therefore prevention of similar experiences of abuse.

SNAP, the Survivors» Network of those Abused by Priests, said as it released the list Wednesday that its accusations were based on media reports, legal filings and victims» statements.

I speak as a survivor of emotional physical, sexual, and spiritual abuse.

But a U.S. - based victims» group, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, dismissed the event as «window dressing» on Monday.

The minutes of the finance council meeting emerged as part of Archdiocese of Milwaukee bankruptcy proceedings, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said Wednesday.

I say this as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, and I am sorry for your experience — good on you for having got away.

During the past ten years as the executive director of GRACE, I have been so blessed to have many similar precious experiences with abuse survivors.

As any mother of a gay child or survivor of sexual abuse will tell you, when we talk about sexuality, we are talking about real people, real bodies, real families, real lives.

One Christian survivor of abuse told me how her father tortured her cat as a means of keeping her quiet.

Once again, I am one of those abused, so as I already said, it absolutely makes sense for a survivor say angry, even abusive, things back — OR for a survivor to freak out and ask others to stop saying words that seem potentially abusive to them because they want to stop all abusive cycles (which is hardly described as «discomfort»).

But since you do, why can't you seem to consider that my perspective, as a survivor of verbal abuse, is something I know very well?

I would bear in mind that a «gentleman» that acts in a way that at one point in time would have been crushing to Caryn and has not learned from that and changed is not safe for abuse survivors to be around and is not a gentleman but a scumbag snake oil salesman masquerading as a gentleman and deserves to be treated as such in protection of the innocent.

«As a result of the grievous wrong of abuse, for many survivors their faith in God and the Church has been profoundly damaged,» said Ireland's senior churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady.

After years of alleged cover - ups and silence from the church over its paedophilia scandal, abuse survivors and their advocates have hailed the prosecution of Pell as a monumental shift in the way society is responding to the crisis.

His treatment innovations have included the first groups in the country for husbands and boyfriends of sexual abuse survivors, as well as one of the first therapy groups for male survivors of sexual abuse.

I would even go so far as to say that a woman doesn't have to be a sexual abuse survivor and shouldn't have to «try it» before making their own decision on the matter.

She specializes in working with distressed couples, abuse and trauma survivors, those with substance abuse problems and their partners, as well as cancer patients and their families.

As a survivor of child sexual abuse and a rape survivor, I have struggled... Read More

She consults and presents workshops nationally and internationally and is co author of several articles as well as the following books: The Doula Book; Bonding; Your Amazing Newborn; a video, The Amazing Talents of the Newborn; and When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women.

Having received UNICEF's BFI training, together with ten years experience of working in a neonatal, I have had the opportunity to support many abuse survivors as they are making the decision whether to breast - feed their child — or not - and to help support them with some of the issues they confront during this time.

In one study, 21 child sexual abuse negatively affected survivors» feelings about themselves as mothers.

In a sample of incest survivors, those classified as having «insecure» attachment relationships as adults were more likely to be depressed and have personality disorders, above and beyond any effects of abuse severity.

The Assembly gave long - awaited passage to a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice — but not before a lawmaker — Brooklyn Assemblywoman Rodneyese Bichotte — emotionally recounted how as a 10 - year - old she was molested by her pastor.

Actor Corey Feldman, who says he was sexually abused as a child, is heading to the state Capitol on Wednesday to push state Senate Republicans to pass a bill that would make it easier for survivors in New York to seek justice as adults.

Supporters of a bill that is aimed at making it easier for the survivors of sexual abuse to file lawsuits is once again being pushed as part of the post-budget legislative session.

A state Senate GOP budget resolution leaves the door open for a deal on legislation that would make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice as adults, but unlike Cuomo and the Assembly Democrats, state Senate Republicans have offered no specific plan.

Flanagan all but declared the Child Victims Act dead as part of the state budget, which would be a crushing blow to abuse survivors who were hoping Cuomo's inclusion of the measure in his budget proposal would give the issue momentum.

Assembly Democrats this coming week will vote on a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice as a adults — pressuring Senate Republicans who have long blocked the measure.

Gary Greenberg, an outspoken child sex abuse survivor, has purchased a digital ad urging the public to pressure state leaders into passing a law making it easier for victims to seek justice as adults.

Gov. Cuomo shared his own plan for a Child Victims Act designed to help child sex abuse survivors seek legal recourse as adults.

ALBANY — Stepping up to the plate for child sex abuse survivors, Gov. Cuomo weighed in Wednesday for the first time with his own plan to help victims seek legal recourse as adults.

While Eric Schneiderman wrapped up his final day as state attorney general after multiple allegations of abuse, the Democrat - led Assembly passed a package of bills aimed at strengthening support for survivors of domestic violence.

Called Sexual Assault Survivors Against DeFrancisco for Governor, the committee will also include Jason Gough, a former Albany television weatherman who was abused as a child, and Nikki DuBose, a former model who is also a survivor.

Legislator Ed Day voted for both resolutions, pointing out that not only law enforcement officers were endangered by the map, but also people such as survivors of domestic abuse and others whose personal information could put them at risk.

ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.

Stepping up to the plate for child sex abuse survivors, Cuomo weighed in for the first time with his own plan to help victims seek legal recourse as adults.

For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.

The state Assembly has introduced a bill designed to make it easier for child sex abuse victims to seek legal recourse, though it does not go nearly as far as some survivors want.

ALBANY — Child sex abuse survivors and legislative Democrats upped the pressure Thursday on the Senate Republicans to pass a bill to make it easier for victims to seek justice as adults.

«We should do everything in our power to give all survivors of child sexual abuse their day in court, as well as get predators off the street and behind bars,» he said.

The inclusion of the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for survivors of child sex abuse to bring cases as adults, is a huge victory for advocates who have lobbied hard for it.