October 2020
Women’s Advocates Emergency Response Virtual Benefit
RSVP Below Are you a page host? Here is the JustGiving page link and a link to gallery photos for your fundraising page! Want to host your own fundraising page for the event? Email us! This year, we are going virtual with our annual fundraising event to recognize domestic violence awareness month and the movement to end domestic violence. In the midst of a global pandemic, we’ve been called on by the community to help more. To do this, we…
Find out more »A Conversation for Building Resiliency as a Foundation for Perseverance
Webinar Date: Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 from 6:30-8:00 PM CDT. Participants will be invited to engage in a conversation about the following: How has COVID-19 impacted people who are currently or have previously experienced relationship abuse or abuse within their household? What is resiliency? How can it set the foundation for perseverance? What does resiliency look like, feel like, sound like? What are the barriers to perseverance? How do we address them? How do we tend to our emotional, physical,…
Find out more »Virtual Author Book Talk: Goodbye, Sweet Girl by Kelly Sundberg
Date of virtual event: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 from 7:00-8:30 PM CDT. Kelly Sundberg will discuss her bestselling memoir Goodbye, Sweet Girl which chronicles her personal experience with domestic violence and how she left an abusive marriage. It is a story of trauma, but also one of love, community, and hope. This event is hosted by Women’s Advocates and sponsored by Hennepin County Library. This event accommodates Deaf and Hard of Hearing folks by providing live ASL interpretation. There is free…
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