Stories

Judy was 8 months pregnant when she obtained an order of protection from her abuser and sought out the Salvation Army’s Joy D. Baker Center, a support program for women and their children who have suffered abuse. Judy immediately began participating in therapy sessions and life skills classes, and the Joy D. Baker staff worked […]

Jane was in a very abusive relationship with her husband when she found the YWCA Victim Advocate program. Her husband kept her isolated from her friends, hid the keys to her car to keep her trapped, and threatened her with physical violence if she tried to disobey him. He would often knock Jane down, kicking […]

When the Court Appointed Special Advocates first encountered Sally and her children, she was in a bad place. She had an open Department of Child Services investigation, was unemployed and had just given birth to her second child- of whom she unfortunately lost custody. She had a criminal record and a long history of drug […]

Since he was very young, Ben experienced neglect, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of his mother. He was removed from the situation and placed in the foster care system when he was five, and since then, he has been moved from home to home with little stability or counseling for what he went […]

Since she was six years old, Jenny had been repeatedly sexually abused by those trusted to care for her. She was moved from foster home to foster home, continuously suffering physical and emotional abuse that left her traumatized and scarred throughout her childhood. As Jenny got older, she experienced post-traumatic stress that affected her behavior […]