Share Your Story

STANDING FIRM: The Business Case to End Partner Violence
A Program of Women's Center & Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh
P.O. Box 9024
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-894-4568

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Instructions for creating your anonymous story for posting on the STANDING FIRM website:

  1. Choose a name that you will call yourself in your story. Do not use your real name.
  2. Write your story in a word processing document. A maximum of 600 words is recommended.
  3. Re-read your story to make sure you have not included details that might identify you to your partner or to persons in your workplace, if that is a concern for you. Revise your story as needed.
  4. Cut-and-paste your story into the 'story' section.
  5. Read the Please Be Safe section below and then, if you choose to do so, check I Agree.
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Please Be Safe:
By uploading your story here, you give us permission to post your story for visitors to the website to read. We highly recommend you do not use your real name or any identifying information including the name or location of your employer or specific details of your story that you would not want all website visitors to know. Use every step you can think of to keep yourself safe. We appreciate your willingness to help others by sharing your story.

I agree to the terms listed in the "Please Be Safe" section.*