Last month, within the span of just over a week, a wave of news reports covered the suicides of three Americans; two Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, Sydney Aiello and Calvin Desir, and Jeremy Richman, a Connecticut local and father to Avielle, one of the victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting. The country was left in...
This month, I met Su Hintz, Survivors of Homicide's court advocate, at the New London Superior Courthouse for the sentencing of a man who murdered his wife of three weeks. Meeting the family of this woman who was killed almost ten years ago now, one town over from my home, was positively numbing; after spending three hours with them...
Survivors cope in a number of ways, largely through personal healing, accessing social support, and accessing religion. They can develop personally focused strategies, like providing emotional support to others, recognizing their emotional pain is an acceptable reaction, trying to forgive the accused, finding personal meaning and actively...
Yesterday I met with Jessica Pizzano, director of victim services at Survivors of Homicide, Inc., in Wethersfield to discuss the agency's current work. As someone who has minimal experience talking about death - much less homicide - one of the questions I was most anxious to get answered was, how to possibly aide someone mourning loss from...
It is National Crime Victims' Rights Week, and a group of students, myself included, in my Politics of Crime and Justice service learning class are fundraising and raising awareness for one of Connecticut's nonprofit victim agencies - an organization called Survivors of Homicide, Inc., which works in a number of important ways to support loved ones...