Last month, four members of the Sierra Community House team stood in a ballroom in Las Vegas and received something they'd spent three months earning: certificates of completion from the Victim Assistance Academy of Nevada. Yvette Soto Herrera, Stephanie Rodriguez, Karla Marcial Aguilar, and Daniella Paniagua-Ruiz spent June through August in the Academy, a statewide [...]
By Denisse Vega Zarate, Ed.M., Housing Coordinator October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This year, we want to shine a light on survivors whose path to safety is often harder: immigrant survivors, for whom finding a stable place to live can be one of the biggest barriers to leaving. Our Housing Mission At SCH, we [...]
What: October marks the 25th annual Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a national campaign that sheds light on the impact of intimate partner violence and honors the strength of survivors. A national survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men over age 18 [...]