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A Look Back: The Consortium for Substance Abusing Women and Their Children

I started working at the Connecticut Women’s Consortium in 2015 amidst a mid-career change. As childhood influences resurfaced, my new profe...
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Nonprofit Stories: Sensory Basket Throwback

At the Connecticut Women’s Consortium, we understand the role that environment plays on our stress levels. In our office, we’ve dedicated sp...
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Why Give a Documentation Workshop?

I just had a tumor removed, but nonetheless I am set to give a documentation workshop at the Connecticut Women’s Consortium this June. In my...
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Want to help Black mothers? Listen to them

Last week, as I was scrolling through my Instagram feed, a post caught my attention, “Vice President Kamala Harris Pledges Her Support to Bl...
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Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in the Wake of COVID-19

Across the lifespan, approximately 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men in the United States will experience severe physical violence, sexual violenc...
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Punching the Air (Book Review)

In the midst on the COVID-19 pandemic the summer of 2020 was defined by the national resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement. The COVI...
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Connection, Community, & Change: A 2020 Story

2020, COVID-19, remote working, isolation, CHANGE. So many words to describe a very different year. 2020 certainly was different, difficult,...
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Bibliotherapy: How My Pandemic Escapism Taught Me Something New About Reading

Reading was my favorite activity as a child. On family vacations, you could find me holed up in my room with a stack of library books, compl...
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Manifesting with Vision Boards

I began using vision boards when I was the facilitator of a women’s group at an inpatient psychiatric unit many years ago. I found creating ...
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