Honoring Domestic Violence Awareness Month 2023

Mark your calendars! Each Thursday during the month of October, Project PEACE will be hosting a free virtual series of lunch and learns. The series will cover:

• Session #1, October 5: Supporting helping professionals seeking to learn ways to intervene
• Session #2, October 12: Increasing community understanding about why people use violence/cause harm
• Session #3, October 19: Strategies for supporting culturally specific populations (South Asian and Immigrant)
• Session #4, October 26: Supporting the creation of safer homes for children that may be exposed to and/or experience domestic violence.

Doorways Earns Another Top Rating from Charity Navigator

Doorways 100%, 4-star rating is the highest possible. Explore Doorways' profile to learn more.

Avery Park Receives Eagle Scout Rank

"Avery Park from Arlington is one of the first females in the country to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. She says usually it takes 7 years to achieve Eagle Scout status but she did it in four. She chose to organize the fifth floor storage space for Doorways and develop an online tracking system as her Eagle Scout project. 'I knew I wanted to do something to support women and children.'"

Resilience Is Born from a Life of Homelessness and Trauma

"Speaking for the first time as a homeowner, Eryn is working toward a master’s degree while also working in the housing sector."

"'You would think any level of predictability and security would mean that I don't fear homelessness anymore, but it hasn't taken the edge off even slightly,' Eryn said. 'Daily, I still wrestle with how close we all are to falling through those cracks.'"

"The experiences of being unhoused, and the adjacent experiences that went with it – self-medicating, unhealthy and dangerous relationships, treacherous living situations, years of unmet basic needs, etc. – left me with some heavy mental health burdens that have become lifelong for me."

When Multiple Social Systems Go Down at Once, Homelessness Prevails

"We are so quick to find the flaws in whichever system is visibly ripping at any moment that we tend to overlook that our entire social safety net is ripping under the weight of overburdened intertwined threads."