FREE WORKSHOP in NYC: Don’t Remain a Victim! You Can Avoid a Lifetime of Abuse

 
FREE Workshop

  
Conference on the Status of Women  - Sponsored by the United Nations

Don’t Remain a Victim!  

You Can Avoid a Lifetime of Abuse

 

Saturday March 9, 2013

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

8th floor Boss Room

The Church Center

777 UN Plaza (E. 44th St. & First Ave.)

New York, NY

Session Organizer:  Dana Raphael, Ph.D.

203-259-5995 

This Workshop is open to both Men and Women  

People who have experienced physical and mental trauma are more likely to be revictimized throughout life.  Join us for a panel discussion on how the pattern of abuse can be broken, and repeated harm avoided.


Come, sit awhile, and share your burdens . . .


SPEAKERS & THEIR TOPICS
 

• Natsuko Utsumi, founder of the nonprofit, Cause Vision, will address "Prevention of Revictimization Through Exposing Human Trafficking.”
• Judy Meikle, a Quaker and a facilitator of the Alternatives to Violence Project, will speak on “Prison Revictimization from an Abolitionist Perspective.” 
• Vicki Polin, founder and CEO of The Awareness Center, will talk about the issues facing Jewish survivors of sexual assault and the effects of war atrocities into the second generation.
• Dana Raphael, Director of The Human Lactation Center, Ltd., will speak on “The Urban Myths That Hurt Everyone.”
• Gabriela Nava Campos, a specialist in public policy and research, will address “best practices” that organizations can use in order to help victims of human trafficking.
• Janet Kraft will present “Resources for Recovery,” written by Randy and Pamela Noblitt, co-authors of Ritual Abuse and Torture in the 21st Century.