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What to know and how to be safe this holiday season.

Self-care encourages you to maintain a healthy relationship with yourself.

What exactly does that mean? Today is a day where we as everyday consumers can acknowledge and recognize the plaguing issue that is Human Trafficking. For those of you that don’t already know, human trafficking is defined as the force, fraud, or coercion used to exploit a person into slave labor or sexual exploitation.

At Friend To Friend, we work with clients of many backgrounds and with many different experiences. In order to offer the most supportive services, we use a trauma-informed lens. This means that we are committed to creating an environment that fosters safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and that takes into account the cultural, historical, and gender issues that people face. It also means that we recognize that peoples’ behavior can often be rooted in a trauma response.

National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, or SAAM, is an annual observance on behalf of sexual assault victims, survivors, and their families. It’s a time to raise awareness in the fight to prevent and stop sexual assault.

Stalking remains a crime which is poorly understood and often misrepresented in the media or popular culture. Rather than being a random nuisance or harmless prank, this type of abusive harassment is surprisingly common, and is often frequent, costly, and emotionally devastating.