Violence prevention efforts are vital to reduce, and ultimately end, domestic violence. There are many important objectives in this work- for Campus Safety Awareness month (September), ICADV is focusing our prevention efforts on higher education. In this piece, we want to focus on why violence prevention in higher education is so important and greatly needed. …

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When you talk about gender-based violence, you are remiss to ignore the roots that lay beneath it: poverty, racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia. We must move towards positive culture change by addressing all of those pieces because those pieces are the basis for our work, our mission. One of the ways to break down domestic …

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Welcome back to ICADV’s blog! As we relaunch, we are taking the opportunity to discuss our tagline – “One Mission, One Voice” and what it means within this Coalition and within the move to end violence here in Illinois. The Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence (ICADV/ILCADV) was founded in 1978, the same year the National …

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