Trusting Divine Guidance

Kathleen A. Taylor is the founder and co-chair of Healthy Families Initiative, a newly formed grassroots movement within the Rhode Island Muslim community to offer intervention and prevention services to Muslims who may be experiencing domestic violence within their homes.

Although in it’s infancy, the initiative has been gaining tremendous momentum as a resource hub for services available to those experiencing domestic violence in the Muslim community.

“I knew creating such an initiative would not be easy: it would mean forging a new path through a typically patriarchal society, and speaking about a subject that many within the community considered taboo - the relationship between a husband and wife. My efforts would either be accepted or rejected, and I ran the risk of being shunned from the community. But these were risks I was willing to take,” she says.

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