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52: Aug 18 2026 - Preventing and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence – Community Heroes at TESSA
Episode 5218th August 2026 • Loving the Springs • Dave Gardner, Al Brody and Carrie Simison
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Efforts in our community are helping individuals and their children achieve safety and wellbeing while challenging us to end sexual and family violence. TESSA CEO Anne Markley fills us in on all the local nonprofit agency is doing, including a confidential Safehouse, Victim Advocacy, Counseling and Children’s Programs, a 24/7 Safe Line, and Community Outreach and Education.

We learn that teens and young adults are especially vulnerable, with more unsupervised time, social gatherings, and new relationships increasing the likelihood of dating violence. And TESSA is doing a lot to address this, including hosting a special community conversation:

Digital Realities: Protecting Youth in the Digital Age

A community conversation about online safety

CSPD and TESSA

August 23, 4 to 7 pm, Ent Center for the Arts

Free, Register Here

TESSA Safe Line: 719-633-3819

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TESSA

City Launches New Parking Enterprise Brand Focused on Making Parking Easier

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Ent Center for the Arts

Wings Credit Union

Jelly Roll

Goat Patch Brewing

Give Pikes Peak

Empy Stocking Fund

Parking Upgrades Downtown

Paul Newman

Cool Hand Luke

The Charlie Block

Urban Egg

Poor Richard’s

Loving the Springs celebrates the best of Colorado Springs and elevates the rest.

Plug into what’s happening in the Pikes Peak region, learn about awesome people, places and happenings, and explore opportunities to make life here even better. Longtime Springs booster Carrie Simison co-hosts with local gadflies Al Brody and Dave Gardner. All three love our two springs – Colorado and Manitou, so they give them the mic in this twice-monthly podcast. Nothing’s off the table – recreation, the arts, government, business, politics – if it touches your life, they’ll talk about it. We’ll invite the movers and shakers, conspiracy theorists, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, yaysayers and naysayers to join them.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and give us feedback and suggestions via comments at studio809podcasts.com/loving-the-springs or lovingthespringspodcast at gmail.com

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