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A TOPIC THAT CAN'T BE AVOIDED
Burbank Leader (Glendale, California)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
February 19, 2013 Tuesday
Feb. 19--We all know the stigmas attached to domestic violence, and
the fears victims harbor -- being ostracized, no safety net, impacts
to children, just to name a few.
For years, services providers like the YWCA and women's commissions
have tried to make inroads into what is perhaps the biggest obstacle
to getting help: silence.
And so when dozens of people this week marched from St. Peter Armenian
Apostolic Church in Glendale to St. Leon Armenian Apostolic Church in
Burbank to raise awareness about domestic violence, it was a show of
bravery and much needed education for an Armenian American population
that organizers say has a tendency to avoid the topic.
The march was organized to highlight the formation of a new domestic
violence task force to create a resource center where victims can get
help and support, or be taken to a safe place. The center, scheduled
to open this fall, likely will have a central office at the Western
Diocese in Burbank.
In his address to supporters, Fr. Vazken Movsesian of St. Peter
Armenian Apostolic Church in Glendale said they needed "to get people
to wake up and say that this is a real problem" -- "this" being
domestic violence, but also the silence that allows it to happen.
Organizers may have marched under the slogan "Violence Hurts, Love
Conquers," but bravery and resolve also conquer. And those two
attributes were put on loud display in our communities on Monday.
Burbank Leader (Glendale, California)
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News
February 19, 2013 Tuesday
Feb. 19--We all know the stigmas attached to domestic violence, and
the fears victims harbor -- being ostracized, no safety net, impacts
to children, just to name a few.
For years, services providers like the YWCA and women's commissions
have tried to make inroads into what is perhaps the biggest obstacle
to getting help: silence.
And so when dozens of people this week marched from St. Peter Armenian
Apostolic Church in Glendale to St. Leon Armenian Apostolic Church in
Burbank to raise awareness about domestic violence, it was a show of
bravery and much needed education for an Armenian American population
that organizers say has a tendency to avoid the topic.
The march was organized to highlight the formation of a new domestic
violence task force to create a resource center where victims can get
help and support, or be taken to a safe place. The center, scheduled
to open this fall, likely will have a central office at the Western
Diocese in Burbank.
In his address to supporters, Fr. Vazken Movsesian of St. Peter
Armenian Apostolic Church in Glendale said they needed "to get people
to wake up and say that this is a real problem" -- "this" being
domestic violence, but also the silence that allows it to happen.
Organizers may have marched under the slogan "Violence Hurts, Love
Conquers," but bravery and resolve also conquer. And those two
attributes were put on loud display in our communities on Monday.