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As you get your newsletter we are putting on our one day seminar
in Los Angeles entitled "Ending Violence
Against Women Making It Happen in L.A."
The seminar is being held on March 12th
at the California Endowment.
There are six workshops
– "What’s love got to do
with it? Contributing factors to violence
against women"; "Will you tolerate
this?”; "Inclusion for a solution.
Practitioners and survivors in partnership
to end violence."; "Meet the press.
Sites and settings for violence against
women."; "Effecting positive change
from lifespan perspectives. Identifying
gaps in service to underserved populations";
"Stop in the name of love. Intervention
and prevention of violence against women”.
Each of the workshops will have a facilitator
and scribes. Lynn Brandstater will be one
of the facilitators.
In the morning we have
two speakers Leslie Wright from Zonta International
who will give an overview of the Secretary
General’s report to the United Nations.
The second speaker is Rocky Delgadillo,
L.A. City Attorney.
The workshops will meet
in the morning to discuss the issues and
then reconvene after lunch to come up with
some solutions to the problems that they
identified. At the end of the day each of
the workshops will have an opportunity to
present their solutions to a Listening Panel.
Members of the Listening Panel include Steve
Cooley, District Attorney for Los Angeles
County, Mary Wiberg, Executive Director
California Commission on the Status of Women,
Sharon Papa, Assistant Chief LAPD, Pat Harvey,
Anchor KCAL9, and Paul Krekorian, Assemblyman.
Our goal is to come up
with one or two things that we can do over
the next year to make a change toward ending
violence against women.
Visit our website to find
out more – www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org
A big thank you to those
members of Valley Sunset District who are
participating in this important day by helping
with registration, hosting a table for lunch,
being scribes or just plain running around
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