According to research, “on average, a boy who sees his mother being abused is 10 times more likely to abuse his female partner as an adult, and a girl who grows up in a home where her father abuses her mother is more than six times as likely to be sexually abused as a girl who grows up in a non-abusive home.”

Since the beginning of 2022, our youth education facilitator has worked with more than 400 youths in the Waterloo Region. This program works to prevent violence, raise respect and build healthy relationships in the community, while teaching better conflict resolution, without violence and how to have more empathy for themselves and others. Your donation will help support hundreds of youth in Waterloo Region and help break the intergenerational trauma that comes with young children who are exposed to domestic violence.