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Wear a DartHeart designed tee

and show your support!

We're happy to announce we have new t-shirts for sale. We also have a snazzy tote bag with our logo in the corner.

The proceeds of each purchase help us reach our goals of improving and expanding our support network for students with post traumatic stress.

As some of you may know, this past fall we held an event at the Hood Museum which highlighted visual artwork by survivors of violence. We’re happy to announce that this month we will host another event as part of our Survivor Art Series to showcase creative writing by our members and other survivors.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Ann Gonzalez, author, teacher, and survivor of trauma, about her latest book Running for My Life.

We've had some interest lately in guest blogging. I wanted to let you know that we're totally open to it, just sign up for an account and send us your blog posting for review. Usually anything relevant to survivors is acceptable. Once it's approved (we like our grammar neat), we'll update your account with blogger privileges and you can post it.

So send us your submissions!

It's a funny thing, this business of providing services for survivors. On the one hand, we hope we hear from lots of people who will brave their public and private concerns to announce to us and more importantly themselves, that here I am, I exist, and I need help. On the other hand, I'd like to work myself out of a job. I hope to hear from survivors and at the same time wish there was no violence and subsequently no survivors to help.