Specific Issue: Social work

Social work

Here's a story about how members of the Changemakers community are improving social work efforts in the United States:

The “kitchen table” is a symbol of comfort and security – a place for safe and honest conversation and welcome advice. It can also be a tool to help confront the most private and secret of crimes – domestic violence.

Close to Home, a non-profit in Boston, Massachusetts, brings domestic violence out of hiding by inviting groups of eight to ten friends, neighbors, or family members to gather around someone's kitchen table for dinner to have a structured conversation about this widespread but often unspoken problem.

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