Affirming Heart Victim Services
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VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
Affirming Heart Victim Services is always looking for help upgrading our building.
We're moving to a new location and will be needing lots of help over the next few months!
If you don't mind labor and you want to make a big difference, let us know below!
BECOME A FREIND of AFFIRMING HEART
The Affirming Hearts group will provide volunteer hours working to secure funding to improve and enhance programs and services offered to child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence and homeless youth in our community.
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Affirming Hearts may plan an open house, host one-time fundraising events, assist with our annual child abuse conference and establish & design an annual major fundraiser.
TESTIMONIALS
Survivors of abuse and their families often feel as though they are the only people this has ever happened to.
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Unfortunately, we know that -
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- 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will undergo a sexual assault before age 18
- 28% of child maltreatment victims are no more than 2 years old
- 77% of children were victimized by a parent, in substantiated child abuse cases
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- every 68 seconds an American is sexually assaulted
- 1 in 4 women and 1 in 26 men have experienced full or attempted sexual assault
- 80% of sexual assault victims know their attacker
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- every 9 seconds in the U.S., a woman is battered by her husband or partner
- 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner
- 72% of all murder suicides involve an intimate partner
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You Are Not Alone!
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Learn more about the affects of abuse or share how abuse has affected you or your family.