Breaking The Silence: Bringing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Into The Light

In this inspiring interview, Jeanne Mitchell shares her journey from surviving childhood sexual abuse to becoming a strong, successful, and resilient woman. She discusses the challenges she faced, the healing process, and the determination that helped her reclaim her life. Jeanne's story is one of courage, perseverance, and hope, demonstrating that trauma does not define a person's future. Through...

On this episode, we talk with project partner and Pastor Eric Munson. Pastor Munson has been in full time mininstry for 30 years and is currently lead pastor at New Life Community Church in Shelby Montana. Connie and Eric discuss the roles and challenges that faith leaders encounter when faced with domestic violence in the church and how they can best help victims. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

In this episode, we meet Angela Meyers, who specializes in Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Counseling. Angela has been working with Hi-Line's Help for many years offering her counseling services to victims of dometic violence and sexual assault. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This video podcast is the fourth in a series where we talk with Angela Mastrovito about what happened to her daughter, Rebekah Grace Barsotti in Montana on July 20, 2021 when she and her beloved dog disappeared. In part 4, we continue talking to Rebekah’s mom Angela Mastrovito about the events that happened within the first year after her daughter’s disappearance. Angela describes the countless ob...

This video podcast is the third in a series where we talk with Angela Mastrovito about what happened to her daughter, Rebekah Grace Barsotti in Montana on July 20, 2021 when she and her beloved dog disappeared.  We continue talking to Rebekah’s mom Angela Mastrovito about the events that happened within the first several weeks after her daughter’s disappearance. Angela describes the coun...

This is part 2 of a series of interviews with Angela Mastrovito, who's daughter Rebekah Grace Barsotti disappeared under suspicious circumstances in July of 2021 near Missoula, Montana. In this episode, Angela talks about Rebekah's abusive marriage, her fight to leave and start her life over and the beginning of circumstances that just do not add up. If you have not yet listened to part 1, I encou...

Hi and welcome to Hi-Line’s Helps podcast, Breaking the Silence, Bringing domestic violence and sexual assault into the light. This podcast is the start of several episodes speaking with Angela Mastrovito. Angela’s daughter, Rebekah Grace disappeared on July 20th 2021 near Missoula mt. Her vehicle and personal belongings were found off Interstate 90, but Rebeka and her dog were miss...

Welcome! On Episode 4 of Breaking the Silence, We have a conversation with Shana. Shana is Hi-Line's Help's financial manager and advocate. Her and Connie discuss what brought her to HLHAS, balancing the role of Pastor's wife and Advocate, along with barrier's to starting over for victims due to the high cost of starting over and the importance that programs such as HLHAS plays to helping those st...

Welcome! On this episode, Connie visits with Autumn, an experienced advocate who is also well versed in the legal and judicial system and how a victim has to navigate it. They talk about Autumns past and how that effects her being an advocate, along with healing after trauma, frustrations with Law Enforcement and the court system revictimizing victims and more. Sit back and enjoy getting to know A...

Welcome to the second episode of Breaking the Silence: Bringing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Into The Light. In this episode, we are talking with Anna, who is a victim advocate with our program. Connie and Anna discuss what brought Anna to Hi-Line's Help and a few of her frustrations with the current legal system when working with victims, especially male victims. We hope you enjoy getting...

An introduction to Hi-Line's Help for Abused Spouses, a victim advocacy program that serves all victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. In this episode, we talk to Connie Huffman, Executive Director, about the how the program started in the 1970's and what the program looks like today, along with the services the program provides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...