Be sure to mark March 12-16 on your planners as chill days, because #SpringBreak2k18 is here!!! Time to kick back and relax with your crew – maybe go to the beach, ride some roller coasters, or get down on a dance floor. There are TONS of cool things you could do on your week off,…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) – The Refuge House turned the big “40” Wednesday. The center first opened its doors in 1978 as a battered womens shelter in Tallahassee. They have experienced consistent growth after the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. The Refuge House fields about 4,000 hotline calls each year. More than 2,000 domestic abuse and…
Forty years. Wow! This month Refuge House celebrates its 40th anniversary of service provision in our community. During that time, we’ve grown tremendously: a bigger Leon emergency shelter, an additional shelter in Taylor county, transitional housing services, a courthouse office, a stand-alone rape crisis service center, collaborations with DCF and local sheriff’s offices, counseling, community…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) – Here in the Big Bend, a local organization is encouraging groups to learn more about protecting employees from sexual harassment and violence. It started with a social media hashtag that brought national attention to the issues of sexual abuse and harassment, but it’s evolved into a growing concern to educate local…
Seven names. Seven victims of domestic violence homicide. Six of those deaths are among the record breaking 18 homicides that occurred in Leon County this year. The victims were killed by a family member, a partner or while attempting to intervene in a domestic violence dispute. Tiffany Nance, Beulah Mae Wright, Devin Landers, Rosario Sanchez, Paula Portillo, Taris…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) — The Refuge House of Tallahassee held its annual candlelight vigil and “speak-out”, raising awareness and honoring domestic violence survivors. The event included skits to show what to do in a situation involving violence and invited survivors to share their stories. “The reason we put on this event every year is to…
The Refuge House, an advocacy and resource center for sexual assault victims, celebrated the opening of its new stand-alone clinic Thursday. Noting the immense collaboration between adjacent Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, community advocates, law enforcement and volunteers, Refuge House Executive Director Meg Baldwin commended the devotion to survivors of sexual assault. “I wish that every victim…
Every 98 seconds, someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. And every 8 minutes, a victim who is assaulted is a child, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. One of those children was Onelia Perkins of Panama City. Her perpetrator, her stepfather, robbed her of her childhood. He started abusing her at only…
On Thursday, one of Tallahassee’s classic rivalry games is going to do something unexpected: bring two schools closer together under a cause everyone can get behind. Each year when Rickards and Godby high schools play each other in football, the community comes out to witness the iconic clash on the gridiron. Collectively, the schools’ colors…
When Javona Glover was fatally stabbed at work on Aug. 30, her relatives say it was the culmination of years of fighting and struggle. Her longtime boyfriend Tavon Jackson remains on the lam, with police in Tallahassee and the U.S. Marshals Service looking to bring him to justice. Jackson has a criminal history. There was a history…