Sentences with phrase «fleeing abusive»

All the funds raised will support YWCA Harbour House, a 24 - bed crisis shelter for women and children fleeing abusive relationships.

Family justice not family violence In British Columbia today, many women fleeing abusive relationships are forced to navigate the Read More

A new universal child care system would have significant ripple effects for gender equality and for those fleeing abusive relationships.

First, on Tuesday, we were welcomed to the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Centre to present our Parenting and Family Law pilot training to a group of more than 25 professionals who serve women fleeing abusive relationships: counsellors, social workers, advocates, child and youth workers, and more.

The clinic supports people seeking advice on issues such as landlord / tenant & eviction issues, wills, divorce & legal protection in fleeing abusive relationships, and bankruptcy among many different types of legal matters that are brought in for advice.

Legend has it, a woman who was fleeing her abusive husband climbed to the top of a banyan tree to escape.

It is the only program in NYC and one of the few nationally that allows for co-sheltering; This means that a victim fleeing an abusive situation will not have to face the nearly impossible choice of abandoning their pets to enter a shelter.

URIPALS eliminates a critical barrier that many survivors face when fleeing an abusive situation: leaving their pets behind.

It is modeled after the national programs that provide assistance to families who are fleeing abusive situation with their pets.

When domestic violence survivors with pets consider fleeing abusive homes and there is no safe place to house their pets, they have little choice but to remain in their homes and subject themselves, their children, and their pets to continued violence, or to flee and leave their pets behind.

Also, if you are living in any of these situations and fleeing an abusive parent you may be considered homeless when completing your FAFSA even if your parent would provide support and a place to live.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Director & Screenwriter: Sean Durkin)-- Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Director and screenwriter: Sean Durkin)- Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman (Elizabeth Olsen) struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

In the original, Pete was fleeing an abusive foster family in the early 1900s.

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Director and screenwriter: Sean Durkin)-- Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

He admits immigration rules can prevent women fleeing abusive relationships.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

The two countries had been in negotiations to lift the ban, but this ended after Kuwaiti authorities arrested two Philippines embassy staff for allegedly helping maids flee their abusive employers.

Her mother fled the abusive home, her father raped her and pimped her out as a prostitute.

I live in London but if I needed to flee an abusive partner, the funding of refuges in my own area would make little difference to my ability to find a room.

Our heroine is Mary Moreton, a single mother who has fled an abusive relationship with her now - mute daughter George.

Pippa Cochran flees an abusive boyfriend only to end up working for a man everyone calls the Grim Reaper — and not just because he's a bestselling author of horror novels.

The best suggestion — time and circumstance permitting — is for them to attempt to plan to flee the abusive situation with their pet.

For example, some of the young people end up homeless having fled an abusive home, choosing the uncertainty of the streets over the known danger of home.

Others fled abusive homes.

«Shattered Dreams» is a compelling novel about a woman who has fled an abusive relationship.

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Healthy Christians, however, leave sick church communities that deny such problems; abusive pastors are those who keep people sick by foregoing mental health concerns in their communities as a way to control people or keep them from fleeing to healthier churches that speak to, or recommend resources for dealing with mental health.

Shawna McAusland overcame a number of personal challenges when she took over full - time management of Gulf Smoked Seafood 18 years ago, as she and her son fled a life - threatening abusive domestic situation at the time.

Her children have watched the family flee a physically abusive household with no money, transportation or job, to a safe environment in a loving home, with a car and food in the refrigerator.

When she was in her early twenties she escaped an abusive husband and fled the Ethiopian countryside for Addis Ababa.

At the time I fell pregnant, I was 19 years old, I'd been living on the streets and in hostels, and I'd just had to flee my physically and mentally abusive partner.

Synopsis: In 1965, eccentric Lucille Vinson (Melanie Griffith) murders her abusive husband, chops off his head and flees to Hollywood to pursue television fa... [MORE]

Jorge and Shore flee the cemetery in a stolen hearse to find Cassandra before her abusive stepfather does.

Mel Gibson provides the voice of an American chicken who lands on the farm while fleeing the circus; Julia Sawalha («Absolutely Fabulous») performs the voice of the head hen in charge, and Miranda Richardson voices Mrs. Tweedy, the abusive chicken farmer.

Inside the Book Title: GETAWAY Author: Maureen Brady Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 230 Genre: Women's Fiction BOOK BLURB: After stabbing her abusive husband and leaving him dying on the kitchen floor, Cookie Wagner flees to remote Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

A fearful single mother fleeing home to family and a sentient house to protect her daughter from a criminal and abusive ex husband, and seeking advice and training for the powers the little girl has begun to manifest.

NAH was founded by Staci Alonso to eliminate one barrier of leaving an abusive relationship and ensure that pets can remain with the families who have fled from a domestic violence situation.

Many domestic violence victims — up to half, depending on the study — don't flee from their abusive situations because they are afraid of what will happen to their pets.

The similarities between Rimbaud's life and Wojnarowicz's are striking: They lived exactly a century apart and both died in their late 30s; each came from a broken home with abusive parents; both fled to the big city — Rimbaud to Paris, Wojnarowicz to New York; both were gay, and each found a surrogate father in the form of an older lover — Paul Verlaine for Rimbaud, Peter Hujar for Wojnarowicz.

He skipped his sentencing hearing and fled abroad from where he has bombarded the court with abusive e-mails.»

«In many cases, women are fleeing from violence — from violent relationships, from family violence — and are unable to sort - of secure the assistance they need in order to navigate the system where they would be facing off against their ex-partner who has been abusive,» says Mangat, who says this could impact legal acts like getting a protection order.