Based on expectations and life experiences.
Help us create better expectations and experiences to provide a different set of choices.
PEACE BEGINS AT HOME.
WELCOME!
This Tumblr is the social media presence for the Building Healthy Futures Fund. The Fund is a statewide network of people, organizations, and companies in Virginia dedicated to establishing a funding stream for local domestic and sexual violence prevention initiatives.
The ways in which we treat one another are learned. We choose to treat our romantic or dating partners based on the lessons we’ve leaned in that type of context. The projects we’ll be funding increase opportunities to learn the value of respect, honesty, and consent, while minimizing anything that encourages disrespect and abuse. It’s crucial that we fund projects that work with young people, their parents, and their local community institutions to determine the factors that enable this violence to occur and devise strategies to disrupt those factors - or strategies that foster positive alternatives to this violence.
We’re calling this site “Peace Begins At Home” because that’s our rally cry. “Home” can be any place where we learn about the world around us - schools, neighborhoods, faith institutions, or our actual physical homes. If we stop and think about what we’re teaching our young people - and each other - about relationships and sex in these kinds of places then we’ll make a massively positive impact on their lives, and the wider world.
The Building Healthy Futures Fund is a project of the Virginia Sexual & Domestic Violence Action Alliance, a statewide non-profit organization with over 30 years of experience in these issues.
