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The View From Here: Giving Maine’s domestic abusers a chance to change
Challenging the beliefs that lead to family violence is a job for everyone.
We think we know the perpetrators of domestic abuse.
They are jealous, possessive tyrants who use physical strength and psychological torture to control their partners, sometimes to the point of death.
IF YOU NEED HELP
If you or someone you know is being affected by domestic violence, help is available through the Statewide Domestic Abuse Helpline: 1-866-834-HELP
• Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence
• Through These Doors, Cumberland County, 1-800-537-6066 or 207-874-1973
Deborah K. Shepherd. (Photo courtesy Left Bank Books)
Caitlin Hamilton Summie. (Photo courtesy Left Bank Books)
(Photo courtesy Left Bank Books)
The public is invited to a virtual conversation on Friday, April 23, at 7 p.m., when Belfast author Deborah Shepherd discusses her just-released debut novel,
So Happy Together, with Caitlin Hamilton Summie, the founder and head of an independent book publicity and marketing firm located in Tennessee. The free event is being hosted by Left Bank Books, in Belfast.
“So Happy Together is a moving exploration of friendship and love, acceptance and tolerance, forgiveness, and honoring our authentic selves,” said Left Bank, in a news release.
Local violence helpline available for support
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Very recently, I completed the Family Violence Project’s (FVP) 45-hour class for their helpline advocates. What an eye-opening, challenging and instructional class. I was among five students and two instructors. I was very impressed with the thoroughness and organization with which our instructors taught the class. The instructional materials were astonishing in the range of information and resources offered. The FVP requires such an intense class for its volunteer advocates because the work the volunteers do on the helpline is very often about life and death the life and death of a woman or man who is being domestically abused by her or his partner. In other words, this is serious business.
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