Survive and Thrive

Survive and Thrive

  • Summer 2021
    • African Immigrants in America
      • African immigrants return to their roots
      • Balancing American lifestyle with family traditions
      • Entrepreneurship while adjusting in a foreign land
      • African Immigrants Seek Better Life In Nation’s Capital
    • Moving to the Adirondacks
      • Small businesses thrive year round
      • Housing crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Protecting Adirondack land and lakes
      • The overcrowding in the Adirondacks
    • Farmers Market Accessibility
      • Local Farmers Could Be Solution To Food Insecurity
      • Farmers Markets Just Got More Accessible
      • College Students Struggle with Food Access
      • Culturally Relevant Foods Grown by Young Adults Hit Local Farmers Markets
    • America’s Abandoned Places
      • Transforming America’s vacant spaces
      • Pennsylvania town goes from ghost town to apple orchard
      • Maine ruin turns to concrete canvas
      • Art Alley provides community space for creation
    • Farming in the City
      • What you need to know about farmers markets
      • What is urban agriculture?
      • How to build your own urban garden
      • Boston gardens are bringing awareness to urban agriculture
    • P-Town Film Fest Goes Hybrid
      • Outdoor screenings remain key festival component
      • Provincetown Film Fest comes back with virtual bang
      • Best documentary audience award proves even split
      • Intergenerational, international romance resides in Fox’s Sublet
    • LA-tina Business Owners
      • Communities come together to support for small businesses
      • Keeping in touch with roots in small business is essential in Los Angeles
      • LA County community sees importance in Latina-owned businesses
      • Latina small business owners cultural, social challenges in LA County
    • Discovering Russian Muslims
      • A Way to Oneself Through Islam and Marriage
      • Martyrs for History: Islamic Tatar National Movement
      • Pursuing the Lost Heaven
      • Being a Muslim in Russia
    • Air Pollution: The Silent Killer
      • Somerville residents confront pollution along I-93
      • Somerville’s environmental justice communities deal with brunt of pollution
      • Somerville leaders and advocates push for noise barriers along I-93
      • Air pollution inequality growing in Massachusetts
    • Public Art and Public Health
      • Protests planned over controversial Columbus statue
      • Boston’s ‘Joy Agenda’ plan seeks to heal the city through art
      • Rethinking Appeal to the Great Spirit
      • Improving a community through public art
    • Waterbury’s Opioid Epidemic
      • Overdose Response Technicians attempt to save lives
      • Waterbury Health Department Fights Overdose Epidemic
      • Volunteers help fight Opioid Epidemic, despite funding concerns
    • Maine Love Wears No Mask
      • Maine wedding industry flourishes once again
      • Future weddings in Maine: what’s to be expected
      • Maine couples are eager to get married as COVID-19 restrictions lift
      • Religious organizations are welcoming back the union of love
    • A Mighty Minority
      • Christians in Palestine resist too
      • Connected for life
      • Building a “glocal” community
      • Called beyond a title
  • Summer 2020
    • Blossoming in Survival
    • College Sports during COVID-19
    • College Enrollment Today
    • Dairy Farming
    • North End Dining
    • Back to School in Chelsea
    • Essential ‘Nonessentials’
    • Gig Jobs in the Pandemic
    • Tourism in Miami
    • Music Therapy
    • Neighborhood Businesses
    • Somerville Restaurants
    • The Ripple Effect
    • Turks in Massachusetts
  • Summer 2019
    • Abortion in America: Then & Now
    • After the Shooting Stops
    • All In the Family (Business)
    • Behind America’s Hometown
    • Boston’s Bakers Rise to the Challenge
    • Crossing from North to South
    • Down and Dirty in Boston
    • Net-Zero from the Ground Up
    • Happy Paradox for Asian Americans
    • What’s up in Boston’s Hip-Hop
    • The Underserved and Climate Change
    • Repairing Right to Repair
    • The Silicone Sickness Movement
  • Summer 2018
    • Come Hear the New Queer
    • Re-crafting Beer Culture
    • Gun Doves To Hawks
    • Korean Culture Hits US
    • Overworked and Undernourished
    • Boston’s Independent Theaters
    • The Power of DNA and How We Use It
    • How Women Rank in College Sports
    • Transgender Athletes: Prejudice or Positivity?
    • Blockchain and Bitcoin Outlook
    • Weeded Out
    • Perception of Veganism
    • More Than a Headache
  • Summer 2017
    • Aging in Boston
    • Boston Hair Care: Diversity & Choice
    • Climate Change in New York City
    • Listening for a Cure
    • Helping Homeless Stay Healthy
    • Study & Deliver
    • The Tech Divide: Teachers vs. Students
    • Together to Stop Youth Violence
    • Pretty hurts: Behind the clean beauty revolution
  • Spring 2017
    • Psychology of feminism
    • Ready to Lead
    • Running in Heels
    • Single Moms: Struggles and Hopes
    • Trips and Treatment
    • Unspoken and Untreated
    • Working at 50+
    • Zero Waste, Infinite Impact
  • Archive
    • Spring 2016
      • Accommodating Transgender
      • All in: Indian Gaming
      • Alone with Food Allergies
      • A Way to Innocence
      • Facing Anti-Muslim Hatred
      • Millennials Move In
      • Our Bodies, Our Struggle
      • Robotics: On a Limb
      • Service Dogs: Fact & Fiction
      • Staying on Pointe
      • Surviving Intimate Trauma
      • Two Homelands, One Love
    • Spring 2015
      • Back to Basics: Holistic Health
      • Beauty Expectations of Black Women
      • Boston 2024 Olympics
      • #BostonFitnessFads
      • Boston Mindfulness
      • Ca$hing in on Cyber$ecurity
      • Exposing Local Anti-Semitism
      • Families Serving Time
      • Fueling the Future
      • Helping the Homeless
      • Heroin: Beyond the Addiction
      • Mobile Language Learning
      • Overdose Oversight
      • Regrowing NE’s Country Roots
      • Robots Among Us
      • Self-image: Beyond the Scale
      • Styling Beantown
      • Tackling Combat Sports
      • The Algorithm Revolution
      • Through Boston Teachers’ Eyes
      • Toxic Nails
      • Wanted: More Women Leaders
      • World-Class Boston?
    • Spring 2014
      • Big Effect of Small-time Football
      • Bike Friendly Boston
      • Birth: Au Naturale
      • Bottle Bill Battle
      • Coastal Conversion
      • Deportation: Brink of Separation
      • Gay, Young and Homeless
      • Girls, STEM and Startups
      • HIV Positive Outlook
      • Immigrant Women & Domestic Abuse
      • Lost at 18
      • Nutrition Literacy
      • Recycling: 1 Bin or 2?
      • Reviving the Written Word
      • Treating Sexual Assault Remotely
      • Vinyl’s Comeback?
    • Fall 2013
      • Big Data in Health Care
      • Helping the Hungry
      • Lost at 18
      • Rehabbing Urban Wildlife
      • Startup Beauties
      • Sustainable Action
    • Spring 2013
      • Asperger’s in Adulthood
      • Chinese Grad Student Boom
      • Community in CrossFit
      • Death by Rx
      • Degreed and Underemployed
      • Geek is Chic
      • Growing Up Muslim
      • Nitrogen Nightmare?
      • Pit Bull Perception
      • Preservin’ the Classics
      • Right to Learn?
      • U.S. Women Made in China
      • Unsolved Gun Violence
      • Young & Homeless
    • Fall 2012
      • Better Workspaces
      • Black Beauty?
      • Broke Not Broken
      • Cheering Challenges
      • Going Social
      • Rainbow Religion
      • Style in Boston
      • The Play State
      • The Sporting Epidemic

Surviving Intimate Trauma

Identifying the cycle of domestic violence

May 26, 2016 Ashley Fountain 0

 Ashley Fountain
Domestic violence in Massachusetts claimed the lives of 334 people over 10 years and accounted for 14 percent of all homicide deaths in the state from 2003 to 2012.

Experts, survivors explain how second-hand trauma can scar the unborn

May 26, 2016 Ashley Fountain 0

 Ashley Fountain
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned mothers that the inability to escape violence during pregnancy poses tremendous risk for both the expectant mother and the unborn child. Those risks can extend throughout early childhood.

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Boston organizations help domestic violence victims fight back

May 9, 2016 Ashley Fountain 0

Ashley Fountain
For survivors of domestic violence, advocacy centers can help provide care and support as they try to heal and recover from the trauma.

Advocates strive to mend trauma in mothers and child witnesses of abuse

May 5, 2016 Ashley Fountain 0

Ashley Fountain
Advocacy, private support and confidential resources are the key essentials to provide helpful resources to mothers and child witnesses of abuse.

About the Author

  • Ashley Fountain



    Ashley Fountain is a multimedia journalism graduate student at Emerson College. With her love for journalism and strong care for others, Ashley hopes to open a door and provide an outlet for all voices to be heard in her future career as a broadcast journalist. Ashley looks forward to every reporting opportunity that will come her way in the near future and will always continue to be an advocate for victims and survivors of domestic violence.

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