Community Connections: DV Awareness Month @ North Quincy!

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Want to learn more about what’s happening in your community? Join us in meeting local organizations and leaders working behind important causes! Learn about resources, services, and or volunteer opportunities available to you. Let’s build a brighter future for our community together. Community Connections is a recurring program at both the Main Library and North Quincy Library locations, where community members get to meet and mingle with local community leaders and organizations while learning about their missions and resources. Missed Community Connections at the Main Library? No worries! Join us again this DV Awareness Month to meet ATASK (Asian Task Force Against DV) and DOVE, Inc. (Domestic Violence Ended) at the North Quincy Library on October 24! Meet representatives from both organizations while we make friendship bracelets - limit 2 per guest; first come, first serve! ATASK (Asian Task Force Against DV) was incorporated in 1992 to address the gaps in services for Asian domestic violence survivors in the Greater Boston and Lowell areas, including low-income immigrants with limited English language capabilities. ATASK operates New England’s only emergency shelter, advocacy services, hotline, education programs, legal advocacy and outreach for Asian domestic violence survivors. With over forty distinct Asian languages and cultures represented in the Greater Boston and Lowell areas, linguistically and culturally accessible resources are vital to our ability to provide outreach, education, prevention, and direct services to the many families in need in Asian communities. Staff provide services in the following languages, in addition to English: Arabic, Bangla, Cantonese, Chiu Chau/Teochew, Filipino, Gujarati, Hindi, Indonesian, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Manipuri, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Thai, Taishanese, Taiwanese, Toisanese, Urdu, and Vietnamese (as of October 2022) and they are prepared and provide services to clients of any Asian speaking or other language. Learn more about ATASK at www.atask.org Since 1978, DOVE, Inc. (Domestic Violence Ended) has worked with adults, elders/seniors, teens, and children who have experienced emotional, financial, physical, and/or sexual abuse. DOVE’s services include crisis intervention, danger assessment and safety planning, supportive counseling, emergency shelter, and community outreach, education, and training. DOVE is the only domestic violence organization based in Norfolk County that provides both emergency shelter and community-based services. We work to promote hope, healing, safety, and social change. Learn more about DOVE at www.dovema.org This program is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Friends of the Thomas Crane Public Library. To find out more about their work and how you can get involved, visit the Friends of the Library webpage .