Celebrating Moms: A Child’s Safe Place
Although Mother’s Day is only celebrated once a year, being a mom is a full-time job. Under the best circumstances, parenting can be difficult, but when domestic violence is present in the home, there are additional layers of complexity. Five million children witness domestic violence each year in the United States, so it’s important to…
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Know-tifications: Social Media Safety and Domestic Violence
Likes, retweets, and comments pepper our phone screens all day long. Social media is an outlet for us to share the way we feel, instantly. Social media has also provided a platform for building domestic violence awareness, with the use of the hashtag #MeToo and #WhyIStayed, as well as providing resources for victims in dangerous…
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The Four C’s of Safety Planning
If someone’s life is in danger, the most important thing is having a plan. Whether a woman is attempting to leave a relationship or is in immediate danger, having a safety plan can make all the difference in the world. Safety planning with survivors of domestic violence is the most CRITICAL component of our work…
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Why I Choose to Be Her First Step: Tamara Boozell
I was raised in a volunteering home. As a child, my mother would take us every Saturday to help at a pop-up free health clinic set up by a family friend, Dr. Alice. We were also raised taking half our birthday gifts over to a local children’s home and spending the day playing with the…
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3 Steps to Get Involved with a Nonprofit for National Volunteer Week
Next week, April 15 – 21, 2018, is National Volunteer Week, and there’s still time to get involved! At Genesis, we love and appreciate our volunteers every day. Especially during National Volunteer Week, we celebrate the impact of volunteer service and the power of change-makers to come together to tackle domestic violence. Genesis is so…
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Genesis Annual Luncheon: 25 Years in the Making
In just six weeks, Genesis will welcome Academy Award-winning actress Hilary Swank to Dallas for the 25th Annual Genesis Women’s Shelter & Support Luncheon. What started as a 100-person lunch and fashion show more than two decades ago has grown into a signature event of the Dallas luncheon scene, with nearly 1700 corporations, philanthropists, donors…
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The Conference on Crimes Against Women
The 13th Annual Conference on Crimes Against Women (CCAW) is quickly approaching, and with it comes a variety of new workshops, case studies, and computer labs to prevent and respond to all crimes against women. Created in partnership between Genesis Women’s Shelter and the Dallas Police Department, the mission of the Conference is to provide…
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Recognizing National Single Parent Day
We have all heard of Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and even Grandparent’s Day, but there is another day that doesn’t get the recognition that it should: National Single Parent Day, which falls on March 21st every year. This day is meant to celebrate the 14 million single men and women who are raising children in…
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Gun Surrender – We Can Do More
Just a few weeks ago, the mayor of Dallas held a press conference at Genesis Women’s Shelter. His message was loud and clear: “we are not doing enough.” Mayor Rawlings’ comments were made in response to the Parkland shooting on February 14 in Florida that left 17 people, most of them high school students, dead.…
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Four Ways to Make a Difference on International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is Thursday, March 8, 2018 – a day to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. Thanks to the Suffragettes’ tireless efforts toward gender equality, International Women’s Day was established in 1911. After more than 100 years, a single mindset remains the same: recognizing, honoring and celebrating the accomplishments…
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