Ending Domestic Violence

In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers at Yale have found that victims of political violence were much more likely to report abusing their female partners after immigrating to the United States.

For many U.S. immigrants, political violence in their homelands is a fact of life and is often a factor in their decision to begin anew somewhere else. But the scars that such violence leaves may not be so easy to mend. For many, the violence they were trying to escape resurfaces in their newly adopted homeland.

Read more at Press Media Wire Web site.

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New Routes to Community Health gives voice to new leaders in immigrant communities across America.

On Friday, August 15th family, friends and many other members of the community gathered for a free event at the National Museum of Mexican Art to cheer about forty of the most amazing and enthusiastic youth performers. Read More

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New Routes to Community Health gives voice to new leaders in immigrant communities across America.

On Friday, August 15th family, friends and many other members of the community gather for a free event at the National Museum of Mexican Art to cheer about forty of the most amazing and enthusiastic youth performers. Read More

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New Routes to Community Health gives voice to new leaders in immigrant communities across America. 
Meet Steven Beaudion, Co-Instructor for Salud:
Healing Through the Arts, a
collaboration between Latinos Progresando’s Teatro Americano, Radio
Arte and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Illinois. Read More

Chip Mitchell, a reporter in Chicago Public Radio's West Side Bureau sent us a note about a radio story on batterer intervention that's airing today (Wednesday May 14, 2008):

CHURCH’S APPROACH TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RAISES EYEBROWS: A mostly Mexican parish in Chicago is running a controversial program for victims of domestic violence. Read More

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