Season 1, Episode 1:

Content: Who is Randi’s House of Angels (RHOA)? Why was RHOA created? This podcast shares the past experiences of Executive Director Nancy Chavez, including some tragic events in her life that led the creation of this foundation.

Facilitator: Sherry Peters

Guests: Nancy Chavez, Founder and Executive Director of Randi’s House of Angels

Resources:

Randi’s House of Angels overview video: https://vimeo.com/user29005187/review/449381644/bff5de0358 Randi’s House of Angels website: https://www.randishouseofangels.com

Music in this episode is: “Adding the Sun” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Season 1, Episode 2:

(Part 1)

Content: Non-threatening behavior, respect, trust and support, honesty and accountability.

Facilitator: Sherry Peters

Guests – Sahara McGrath, Coordinator of the Shippensburg University (SU) PAGE Center & Emily Ott, Public Education Coordinator at Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties

Resources:

1. DVSCPC offers services including an emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline that you can call or text at 1-800-852-2102, individual and group counseling, protection from abuse (PFA) orders, medical and legal accompaniment, and children’s programs, among other resources. Their website can be found at http://dvscp.org.

2. Shippensburg University’s Pride & Gender Equity (PAGE) Center offers a focal point for all university community members who support the wellbeing of gender-based violence survivors, LGBTQ+ students, women, LGBTQ+ men, and agender students. https://www.ship.edu/life/resources/page/

3. Equality and Power and Control Wheels – The wheel serves as a diagram of tactics that an abusive partner uses to keep their victim in a relationship.

https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/

https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/power-and-control/

Download a PDF version of the Power and Control Wheels

Music in this episode is: “Adding the Sun” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Season 1, Episode 2:

(Part 2)

Content: Responsible parenting, shared responsibility, economic partnership, negotiation, and fairness

Facilitator: Sherry Peters

Guests: Sahara McGrath, Coordinator of the Shippensburg University PAGE Center & Emily Ott, Public Education Coordinator at Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry Counties.

Resources:

1. DVSCPC offers services including an emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline that you can call or text at 1-800-852-2102, individual and group counseling, protection from abuse (PFA) orders, medical and legal accompaniment, and children’s programs, among other resources. Their website can be found at http://dvscp.org.

2. Shippensburg University’s Pride & Gender Equity (PAGE) Center offers a focal point for all university community members who support the wellbeing of gender-based violence survivors, LGBTQ+ students, women, LGBTQ+ men, and agender students. https://www.ship.edu/life/resources/page/

3. Equality and Power and Control Wheels – The wheel serves as a diagram of tactics that an abusive partner uses to keep their victim in a relationship.

https://www.theduluthmodel.org/wheels/

https://www.thehotline.org/identify-abuse/power-and-control/

Download a PDF version of the Power and Control Wheels

Music in this episode is: “Adding the Sun” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Season 1, Episode 3:

Release Date: November 13, 2023

Content:

What is Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), what is abuse, Physical, sexual, psychological/emotional, financial, cultural, social, spiritual, verbal, cycle of violence/power and control wheel, IPV resources.

Facilitator: Dr. Ellen Smith

Guests: Stephanie Spurgeon, Direct Services Supervisor at Domestic Violence Services of Cumberland & Perry

Resources:

1. DVSCPC offers services including an emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline that you can call or text at 1-800-852-2102, individual and group counseling, protection from abuse (PFA) orders, medical and legal accompaniment, and children’s programs, among other resources. Their website can be found at http://dvscp.org.

Music in this episode is: “Adding the Sun” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Season 1, Episode 4:

(Part 1) Release Date: November 27, 2023

Content:

Why don’t victims of domestic violence leave relationships? What do assailants do to keep them from leaving? What did you experience? What triggered you to leave? What did Diane learn about her sister after she was killed? What answers did she want to know?

Diane will tell her story about the impact of the murder on her family. How so many feelings and discussions took place afterwards to find anything that might have led to Sue’s murder. In the midst of helping to manage the estate, so much was found that gave some insight to why her sister was brutally murdered by her husband. The questions still linger as to why Sue did not leave her abuser.

Facilitator: Dr. Ellen Smith

Guests: Nancy Chavez (Domestic Violence Victim and Survivor) and Dianne McMillen (Family Survivor of Domestic Violent Victim)

Resources:

1. DVSCPC offers services including an emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline that you can call or text at 1-800-852-2102, individual and group counseling, protection from abuse (PFA) orders, medical and legal accompaniment, and children’s programs, among other resources. Their website can be found at http://dvscp.org.

Music in this episode is: “Adding the Sun” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Season 1, Episode 4:

(Part 2) Release Date: December 11, 2023

Content:

Why don’t victims of domestic violence leave relationships? What do assailants do to keep them from leaving?

Barbara Roddin, wife, mother of three children and a grandmother. She will share her experience as a domestic abuse survivor. She will share how she became a widow at 30 years old. Her marriage of 16 years to an abuser; the ongoing harassment and stalking, filing a PFA, taking part in several court hearings over child custody, child support, and the mental abuse of her children.

Facilitator: Dr. Ellen Smith

Guests: Barb Roddin (Domestic Violence Victim) and Nancy Chavez (Domestic Violence Victim and Survivor)

Resources:

1. DVSCPC offers services including an emergency shelter, a 24-hour hotline that you can call or text at 1-800-852-2102, individual and group counseling, protection from abuse (PFA) orders, medical and legal accompaniment, and children’s programs, among other resources. Their website can be found at http://dvscp.org.

Music in this episode is: “Adding the Sun” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Season 1, Episode 5:

Release Date: January 8, 2024

Content:

Today we are discussing ways to support and empower the target of the abuse (e.g., consistently validate the person’s feelings, point out their strengths and accomplishments, support targets of abuse to believe in themselves, show empathy), be there and connect, and keep reflecting back to the abused person all of the positive qualities you see in them, keep believing that they will get free, ask how you can help, and providing Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) resources

Facilitator: Dr. Ellen Smith

Guests: Toni Shearer

Toni is a Licensed Professional Counselor in PA who is specialized in sexual and family violence and trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment, Motivational Interviewing and Mindfulness. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Child & Adolescent Trauma Professional and Certified Family Trauma Professional.

Resources:

1. The Center for Hope and Healing is a trauma informed counseling practice that is specialized and designed to treat children and adults who have become imbalanced from traumatic responses to distressing and/or life-threatening event(s) either directly or indirectly, in any facet of functioning and living. The Center offers hope and healing to children, adolescents, adults and their families. https://centerforhopeandhealing.org.

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Season 1, Episode 6:

Published: January 22, 2024

Content: Queen Afi Gaston will discuss how victims continue to repeat the cycle of domestic violence. Including a candid account of a survivor’s story and her experience in being victimized and becoming the abuser. Her experience will give you a perspective on how victims migrate through the different stages of surviving and are challenged to “break the cycle” of domestic violence.

Facilitator: Dr. Ellen Smith

Guests: Queen Afi Gaston

Queen Afi is an accomplished moderator for community and ministry events, a renowned blogger, and a motivational speaker on social issues of domestic violence and mental health. She is the host of two educational internet-based talk shows, The Abusers’ Side Education and The Brokenness to Boldness Survivor Stories; and has interviewed over one hundred survivors’ victims and abusers combined (male, female, and youth).

Resources:

Domestic Violence Wears Many Tags website: https://dvwmtsorg.godaddysites.com

DVWMT & Queen Afi Videos:

https://youtu.be/TT_5ZVBPEGg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC65pKKhWig

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