Mid Central Community Action, Inc. » victims http://www.mccainc.org Promoting safe and stable families, neighborhoods, and communities Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:55:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Countering Domestic Violence/Neville House offers support to Survivors and Victims http://www.mccainc.org/http:/www.mccainc.org/countering-domestic-violenceneville-house-offers-support-to-survivors-and-victims/ http://www.mccainc.org/http:/www.mccainc.org/countering-domestic-violenceneville-house-offers-support-to-survivors-and-victims/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:10:58 +0000 Vikki Baptiste http://www.mccainc.org/?p=427 [...]]]> Adult survivors and victims of domestic violence are encouraged to attend CDV’s Tuesday night support group.

Topics discussed include:

  • self esteem
  • safety planning
  • assertiveness
  • characteristics of an abusive relationship
  • healthy boundaries
  • identifying/verbalizing personal needs
  • “Bill of Rights”
  • being single parents
  • red flags
  • intergenerational cycle of abuse
  • and much more

The group meets on Tuesday nights from 6:30pm – 8:00pm, and a children’s support groups is offered at the same time for children ages 6 to 12. Assistance is available for child care for younger children.

Please call the Neville House 24 hour hotline at (309) 827-7070 for further information and location of the meetings.

“When these strangers gathered, something happened – some would call it “a dynamic”, others “grace” – that allowed them to speak truthfully from the depths of their hearts and also to be receptive to each others truths, where in other circumstances they could not do either, and in this giving and taking, to begin to heal. What makes this possible and why it is healing remains the mystery and miracle of self-help groups.”

“Notes and Comment”
The New Yorker
April 23, 1990

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