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Join Heather Hanline as she leads a session on adverse childhood experiences and how schools can support students.

Heather is the Executive Director of the Dove Center, Garrett County’s dual sexual assault and domestic violence program.  She has worked at the Dove Center since October of 1998, and has been the director since October of 2001. The Dove Center is a private, non-profit program, providing comprehensive services (shelter, hot-line, individual and group counseling, advocacy, accompaniment, information and referral, outreach and education, 911 cell phones, pet housing, and more) to victims of sexual assault and/or domestic violence.  The agency started out as a grassroots effort by several local women in 1991.