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Concrete Angel

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace

Whoa

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place
Where she's loved

Concrete Angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear but they turn out the light
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it will be too late

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place
Where she's loved

Concrete Angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
Her name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place
Where she's loved
Concrete Angel

Online Resources

Canadian Websites

Prince Edward Island

  • Transition House Association
    The Transition House Association was established in 1980 to provide a place of safety for women and children who are victims of abuse and to work towards the elimination of family violence. The Association believes that it is a basic human right to be free of abuse and fear of abuse in relationships. This website contains information about the Transition House Association, its services and programs.
  • Women's Network
    Women's Network PEI is a not-for-profit organization that works to strengthen and support the efforts of PEI women to improve the status of women in our society. Women's Network PEI was founded in 1981 and incorporated on May 31, 1984.
  • PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women
    The Prince Edward Island Advisory Council on the Status of Women is an arm's-length from government advisory agency. The nine members of Council are appointed by government to work for equality and to support women's full and active participation in social, legal, cultural, economic, and political spheres of life.
  • PEI Woman Abuse Protocols
    The Coalition for Woman Abuse Policy and Protocol in Prince Edward Island
    Response to woman abuse: policy and protocol initiative
  • PEI Rape And Sexual Assault Crisis Centre
    Rape and Sexual Assault Crisis Centre is a twenty-four hour toll free crisis line for information and support with trained volunteers: confidentiality respected. Limited one to one therapy available. When possible therapy groups are held for adult women survivors of childhood sexual abuse with trained facilitators under direction of therapist.
  • PEI Victim Services
    Victim Services assists victims of crime throughout their involvement in the justice system. They provide many services including information about the criminal justice system, short term counselling and support, referrals, court preparation, and other assistance under the Victims of Family Violence Act.
  • CLIA - Community Legal Information Association
    The Community Legal Information Association of Prince Edward Island, Inc. (CLIA) is a non-profit corporation and a registered charity. Its work is called public legal education. CLIA's goal is to provide Islanders with understandable, useful information about our laws and our justice system.
  • SAVE
    S.A.V.E. PEI is a project created by Montague Intermediate and Senior High Students in 2005-06. This project is a partnership between Montague Senior High School and Eastern PEI Family Violence Prevention Services.

Other Canadian Sites

  • National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
    On behalf of the Government of Canada and its Family Violence Initiative (FVI), the Public Health Agency of Canada operates the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence (NCFV). The NCFV is Canada's resource centre for information on violence within relationships of kinship, intimacy, dependency or trust.
  • Canadian Women's Foundation
    Canadian Women's Foundation raises money and makes grants to help stop violence against women and build economic independence for women and their children.
  • Springtide Resources Springtide Resources promotes healthy and equal relationships by engaging diverse communities in shared educational strategies designed to prevent violence against women and the effect it has on children.

International Sites

  • Women's Refuge (New Zealand site)
    The website of the National Collective of Independent Women's Refuges Inc., the umbrella organization of 50 Women's Refuges around Aotearoa / New Zealand.