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A newly released Verizon Foundation and More magazine survey asked more than 1,000 women about their health and well-being. The 44 percent who identified themselves as survivors of domestic abuse were 20 percent more likely to experience a chronic health condition compared with women who said they’d never been abused.

The Start Strong evaluation is one of the few, and largest, studies to take an in-depth look at healthy relationship development and TDV prevention efforts involving middle school students.

Blue Shield of California Foundation released today the results of a statewide survey on Californians’ attitudes toward domestic violence.

Millions of youth run away or are thrown out from their homes every year. Yet, services designed to support them are rare in most communities. National Runaway Prevention Month (NRPM), sponsored every November by the National Runaway Safeline, is an excellent opportunity to raise awareness of and educate others in your community.

After meeting this morning with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq at the Naval Observatory, Vice President Joe Biden departs for Austin to visit the site of one of his proudest legislative achievements – the National Domestic Violence Hotline in West Lake Hills.

Tell Me More guest host Celeste Headlee spoke with Oliver Williams, a professor of social work who heads the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African-American Community at the University of Minnesota.