Corporate leaders should invest in prevention, partnership, and trauma-informed programs that shape the next generation of emotionally healthy employees.

Written by Executive Director, Tiffany Mensah. Sunday mornings were traditional and routine growing up. People assume children in church automatically feel safe. But what happens when “home” and “holy” coexist with harm? In my house, we prayed loudly, but the arguments were louder. Scripture was quoted in the same rooms where control lived. The same voice that preached forgiveness also demanded control and compliance. That’s the complexity of growing up in church while surviving domestic...

Before becoming an Executive Director, I grew up watching my mom live through domestic violence. People on the outside would ask the same question again and again:  “Why doesn’t she just leave?” I wish they knew that leaving is never that simple. Survivors weigh impossible choices: Do I risk retaliation if I leave? Will I lose my children in the court process? How do I survive with no car, no job, no safe place to go? Will anyone believe me, or will I be blamed? I saw firsthand that the...