How to Care for Yourself After Sexual Assault

By now you probably know that GateWay of Hope is honoring April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). In our first blog post this month we looked at who is affected and how it affects them. (Click here to read the previous post.) We also examined how to help...

How to Stop Pretending and Start Helping

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). In the post for April 7, we looked at what sexual assault is, how it affects its victims and how to prevent it. We admitted that we don’t like to talk about such an uncomfortable topic. Yet we agreed that we needed to...

What We Don’t Like to Think About

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Sexual assault is not a topic any of us like to think or talk about. Some of us are uncomfortable because we don’t like unpleasant topics. Or maybe we feel embarrassed. Some of us don’t really believe sexual assault...