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Poetry By Survivors
Support groups are a unique opportunity for healing among other survivors. Experiencing things like child sexual abuse and sexual assault are traumatic, life changing events and support groups are an additional avenue for survivors to heal by sharing, listening, and most importantly, knowing that...
ACC-SANE: A Great Resource in Our Community
Do you know about ACC-SANE? If not, it is my hope that after reading this article you will be educated about this unique and wonderful program in our community. ACC-SANE is the acronym for the Athens-Clarke County Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners program, which provides free evidence-gathering serv...
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Darkness To Light Training Offered
The Cottage is proud to be able to offer the child abuse prevention workshop: Darkness To Light. This workshop is sponsored by funding from the Plum Creek Foundation. The mission of Darkness to Light is to diminish the incidence and impact of child sexual abuse so that more children grown up ...
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The Cottage has trained 20 new crisis hotline volunteers!
In early September The Cottage trained 20 dedicated folks on how to answer the 24/7 crisis hotline. This is no small feat of the staff of The Cottage. The training was a total of 12 hours over the course of three days. Staff worked long and extra hours to prepare for this training and then to ...
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