CONWAY — Starting Point’s Men’s Advocacy Group had its first meeting on Sept. 20 at the Advocacy Center on Pleasant Street.
This is the first group of its kind in New Hampshire according to the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Nine men attended.
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