Newsletter | 5.17.2024
Hello, Santa Barbara!
**Traducción en Español a continuación de la versión en Inglés**
PC Teri Jory
WHAT IS LOVE
A Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program
Teaches Young People, Parents, and Schools How to Identify Healthy & Unhealthy Relationships
Finding and maintaining healthy relationships is one of the most important endeavors of our lives and despite that, we can find ourselves in situations that are often abusive and dangerous without the necessary skills to navigate them.
Christy Stillwell, founder of the organization What Is Love, has worked for the last twenty years to pass on her knowledge of what it means to create healthy relationships that endure, starting in childhood. Christy is a high school dropout and teen runaway, who experienced violence both physical and emotional, from her father. Despite this, she learned how to be a strong, compassionate voice.
Through her own experiences and education (M.A. in Counseling Psychology), Christy learned to be a champion for those who are experiencing similar violence at home, and teaching those kids how to navigate their own trauma and start to form healthy relationships.
Click the links below to watch exclusive clips and - for Spanish subtitles - click on "cc" at the bottom corner of the video.
Growing Up
Christy describes growing up in an abusive household and how it completely altered her life. Click the link below to watch.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-growing-up
Education and Volunteering
With the formative influence of her loving grandmother, Christy was able to begin attending classes at community college, which ultimately led her to Santa Barbara. Click the link below.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-education-and-volunteering
Surviving In Silence
Click the link below to hear Christy discuss what it’s like to survive in silence in an abusive household.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-surviving-in-silence
Early Experience
Despite a rocky start, Christy’s passion for helping young people form healthy, loving relationships enabled her to make a lasting impact on young people in Santa Barbara and beyond. Click below to watch.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-early-experience
Multi-Tiered Approach
What Is Love uses a multi-tiered approach to ensure students get what they need. Click the link below.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-multi-tiered-approach
Four Types of Abuse
Click the link below to learn about the four identified types of abuse that people face.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-four-types-of-abuse
What Is Love In Schools
Christy discusses What Is Love and how their presence in schools can be transformative for young people. Watch at the link below.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-what-is-love-in-schools
Working With Parents
Although Christy’s work centers around young people, she also reinforces the importance of working on these skills as a parent. Watch below.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-working-with-parents
Full Interview
Watch our full interview with Christy at the link below.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/christy-stillwell-what-is-love
Learn more about Christy and her transformative work of What Is Love: click on the link.
Federal Funding Cuts and STESA’s Chocolate De Vine
Now more than ever it is crucial to come out and support our local services for victims services after funding for these services is facing cuts at a federal level. Services that would lose funding include rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, and child abuse programs. STESA’s annual gala fundraiser, Chocolate De Vine, is a great way to come out and show your support for these crucial services.
Standing Together To End Sexual Assault (STESA) is one of many programs that would lose funding amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. The largest federal funding source for these services is The Victims of Crimes Act (VOCA), which has a proposed funding cut of nearly $700 million. Organizations like STESA are now faced with decisions to reduce human and financial resources that would drastically diminish the critical services they provide to our communities.
Show your support and enjoy an afternoon of wine and chocolate:
Chocolate De Vine
Saturday May 18th
4:00 to 7:30pm
Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara
Chocolate De Vine Tickets
Purchase your tickets now at https://www.chocolatedevine.org/tickets. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation!
Modeled After STESA - 50 Rape Crisis Centers in Spain
Click the link below to watch The Resource 2023 Person of the Year, STESA’s Executive Director Elsa Granados, discuss how she helped build 50 Rape Crisis Centers in Spain, modeled after STESA, upon request by the Spanish government.
Climate Change
Three pioneers discussed the impacts of climate change and what our community is doing about it at the Democratic Women of Santa Barbara Social Lab.
Watch below to see an excerpt from each speaker.
SB Channel Keeper
Ted Morton, Executive Director of Santa Barbara Channel Keeper describes the environmental impact of cruise ships on the Santa Barbara Channel. Click the link below to learn more about what our community is doing to combat the negative effects this kind of tourism has on our waters.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/ted-morton-executive-director-santa-barbara-channel-keeper
Community Environmental Council
Climate Programs Associate from the Community Environmental Council, Farah Stack describes what is being done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California and beyond. Click the link below to watch.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/farah-stack-community-environmental-council
SB’s Sustainability and Resilience Department
April Price from the City of Santa Barbara’s Sustainability and Resilience Department describes the city’s plan to better utilize local energy resources. To find out more, click the link below.
Santa Barbara Art Walk
Santa Barbara’s artistic community came out in force to celebrate the many talented artists that call Santa Barbara home. Click the link to experience Santa Barbara's Artists' magical creations.
Santa Barbara Tattoo Convention
The first annual Tattoo Convention in Santa Barbara was presented by Golden Eagle Tattoo, 805 Ink, Tim Hendricks, and Salt Water Tattoo Supply. The event not only promoted many tattoo artists giving tattoos on site, but also screen printing, vintage clothing, art, food, a car show, and even temporary tattoos for the young ones. To watch an excerpt from the event, click the link below.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/santa-barbara-tattoo-convention
Santa Barbara Trapeze Company
Santa Barbara Trapeze Company hosted a free event, giving the community a chance to fly on the trapeze, practice parkour, and experience acrobatics. Watch below for a glimpse into the fun.
https://www.theresourcesb.com/blog/santa-barbara-trapeze-company
Stay Strong and Be Inspired,
Teri