Collin County Council on Family Violence (CCCFV)

Join us at the 17th Annual North Texas Facing Family Violence Conference October 23-25, 2019. Register at ow.ly/EmqK50w6Mha.

CCCFV December Lunch and Learn - mailchi.mp/cccfv.com/cccf…

We welcome our featured speaker for Day 2 of the NTFFV Conference, Phil Arkow. “We can prevent family violence more effectively by paying more attention to animal abuse as a potential co-occurring and predictor crime.” #NTFFV #cccfv

Exciting first morning of the North Texas Facing Family Violence Conference! We thank Dale Hansen, our keynote speaker, for sharing his passion and personal experience with fighting against domestic violence. #NTFFV #cccfv

The North Texas Facing Family Violence is underway. Please use our hashtag in any of your conference posts. We have a few prizes to share! #NTFFV #cccfv

Congratulations to CCCFV member organization @collincollege on receiving the Event of the Year award for their Student Government Assoc. Oct ‘18 program: “Love Does Not Hurt: An Oath Against Domestic Violence.” wylienews.com/2019/05/02/stu…

Without our @JL_CollinCounty volunteers we would not be able to hold our monthly lunch meetings or our annual Leadership Breakfast. Thank you for your time and talents!

Elyssa Schroeder, Public Policy Coordinator with @TexasCouncilFV was our featured speaker this morning at our annual Leadership Breakfast

Our Advisory members with featured speaker Elyssa Schroeder of @TexasCouncilFV

Junior League of Collin County members at our annual Leadership Breakfast, including sustaining member Judge Cindi Wheless

It was great to hear from law enforcement today at our annual Leadership Breakfast. Thank you for coming.

Great turnout for our annual Leadership Breakfast! @emilysplacetx @CollinCountyGov @collincountyda @leachfortexas @CollinCoSO @TexasCouncilFV @HopesDoorInc @JL_CollinCounty

Thank you to Junior League of Collin County for hosting @CollinCCFV Leadership Breakfast this morning! Working together communicating & collaborating to #EndDomesticViolence! @gregwillisda @SheriffSkinner @PlanoPoliceDept @McKinneyPolice @allenpolice @FriscoPD

Our May lunch meeting featured a talk on Elder Abuse by Katrina Wall-Briggs from Texas Department of Family & Protective Services. To learn more visit EveryonesBusiness.org

Kae Law said he wants to encourage women who are in situations similar to his mother’s to get help and understand that domestic violence “can happen to anybody, no matter how good a person they are.” dallasnews.com/news/tarrant-c…

“It’s not a denial. It’s a refusal to admit that this person who you most likely loved … is actually doing this thing to harm you,” Becky Leach texastribune.org/2019/04/08/jef…

Spread the word! @RedRoverOrg offers grants for DV survivor pet boarding and helping shelters create pet friendly housing programs. Next round of applications are due May 15th. redrover.org/dv-safe-housin…

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