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Diane’s Corner   Have you ever heard of conviviencia? The translation is ‘coexist,’ like those bumper stickers you may have seen on a car in front of you at a traffic light. The word convivencia comes from a Spanish historian, Américo Castro, who wrote in the 1940’s about a time in medieval Spain when Jews, […]

Every one of the immigrant women we serve has been on a long journey.  Well, we have too.  It began simply as a dream, back in around 2013 or 2014.  Several women, all from Latin America, one herself a domestic violence victim, began thinking about opening a Casa de Paz.  The domestic violence victim was […]

FROM OUR FIRST 20 MONTHS Opened Doors, January 20, 2020 Renovated Living Space for 5 Families Obtained Necessary Furnishing, Clothing and Food Housed and/or Served 24 Women Housed and/or Served 41 Children “Graduated” 11 Families to Safer, Saner Independent Lives Provided Help to 12 Women on Protective Orders and Other Legal Issues Hired Our First […]

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The term “human trafficking” prompts images of organized criminal enterprises that buy and sell people for commercial purposes. The reality is that most victims of trafficking know their trafficker, often as a romantic partner or relative, which complicates but does not lessen the horror of their suffering. Daniela, a current Casa de Paz client, fits […]

When Alejandra Best and I invited Margaret Singer to an interview, we knew she would have many stories to tell. Margaret is a respected member of the Casa de Paz community, having served as a social worker to Latinx immigrants for over 30 years. Driven always by a love of family and faith, her journey […]

In April, three professors from Xavier University presented the results of their research to the Board of Directors of Casa de Paz. Dr. Leah Dunn, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, Dr. Jennifer Gibson, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Dr. Diane Ceo-DiFrancesco, Professor of Spanish and Education were assisted by Xavier student researcher Mercy Torres. In […]

As a victim of domestic violence who was not authorized to be living in the U.S., Emma was overwhelmed. She was afraid of her husband, who had attacked and threatened her repeatedly, wielding a knife and destroying furniture in his fury, but she also held a deep-seated conviction that marriage was forever. She had no […]