Summit Advocates

06/20/2017

"This is... a story that's taken place countless times."

06/20/2017

More than a third of families in Summit County qualify for the state’s free or reduced-cost lunch program for their school-aged children and a new community effort is attempting

06/18/2017

On June 22, 1999, Jessica Lenahan’s estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, kidnapped their three daughters from the front yard in Castle Rock, Colorado, in violation of a domestic violence order of protection. As soon as Jessica realized the girls were gone, she contacted the local police and told them…

06/15/2017

"I was at the trial. The way his lawyers blamed the victim was shocking."

06/13/2017

06/12/2017

A new study shows it’s common for women to experience involuntary paralysis during sexual assault.

06/12/2017

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For some people who watched the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey’s Senate testimony on Thursday, the questions he faced brought to mind a...

06/11/2017

06/09/2017

There is nowhere in this country where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual report released Thursday documenting the gap…

06/09/2017

Lisa Ingarfield |

While riding my road bike alone in Aurora one summer afternoon, a Ford
F-250 truck flew past me, much closer than...

06/08/2017

GENEVA (7 June 2017) – Governments must do more to tackle the hugely disproportionate rates of violence suffered by women, including recognising attacks on them as human rights violations and domestic murders as a form of arbitrary ex*****on, a United Nations expert has said.

06/07/2017