VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN FORUM – April 18th
March 30, 2009
by The New Agenda
|The New Agenda will be hosting a Violence Against Women Forum on April 18th from 3-5 p.m. at the Benjamin Hotel in New York City. A cocktail hour will follow from 5-6 p.m. RSVP to tnavawforum@yahoo.com.
Karen Cheeks-Lomax, Executive Director of My Sister's Place
The Violence Against Women Forum will feature four of the New York area’s preeminent experts on domestic violence. Each expert will speak about a specific topic that she feels is currently noteworthy.
One expert is Karen Cheeks-Lomax, Executive Director of My Sister’s Place, a domestic abuse shelter in Westchester, New York. My Sisters’ Place provides extensive intervention and supportive services in a holistic manner – addressing the many facets of helping to make one’s life whole again. Violence and abuse takes many forms, from financial control to emotional control, sexual control and of course, physical violence.
Karen’s topic at the VAW Forum will be “The Next Generation.” Here’s a description of what Karen will discuss:
To make meaningful change in the way our society thinks about abuse in intimate relationships My Sisters’ Place is putting concerted energy into “The Next Generation”. We believe in working diligently and consistently to change the dialogue around intimate partner abuse and gender appropriate behavior we will help raise a next generation of intelligent, sensitized and self-confident individuals that will understand roles and responsibilities. We do this through our middle and high school education programs, our creative art therapy programs, our outreach and training to community groups, religious institutions, medical centers, athletic programs and of course guidance programs in the schools. We are also creating artistic expression opportunities through our next generation performers and community service opportunities for teens throughout the county. Children can and will be given a new paradigm within which to function which involves respect and dignity.
The New Agenda asks all our members and website viewers to help us spread the word about this important event. SAVE THE DATE card can be found here.
I am a guy who is truly confused- Rhianna is refusing to work with the La County DA in the prosecution of Brown. Fortunately as a result of the Nicole Brown OJ case in Ca her statement to the police are admitted into evidence even if she wont testify and in Ca the victim can not get the charges dismissed- my quandry is why would she act as she is?
bruce nahin,
I think it’s very hard for some women. I’m sure she loves this jerk and I believe I read that she had abuse or had been exposed to abuse during her childhood. Some women “learn” that this is what love is. There are a million things that could be going on with her, but I try not to get into that because what she needs is to know that this is NOT her fault, and that she has support when she is ready to leave. Who knows why people stay with abusers, cheaters, lay-abouts, etc. One thing that I learned in DV class was that a lot of women just want to deny in their minds that it ever happened, move on and forget. It must be a horrible, confusing, painful position to find yourself in, and I just hope she will find her way. In the meantime we must be careful to put the blame where it belongs, on Chris Brown.
thanks thia as always a pleasure to ” talk” with you
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My identity was stolen and my friends were contacted for money. i want to make sure she did not send $
The deck seems stacked against women in all respects. I think women are more likely to get charged with a crime when they defend themselves against domestic violence. I knew a woman whose boyfriend abused her and her son – she left him and took legal action against him via EPO and a petition in Juv Court as well – and even moved away – he stalked her and one night he threw a piece of firewood through her living room window and came through after her. she shot him in the neck with a .38 and it knocked him back out of the window and the SOB died on her porch – good riddance. The cops came and charged her with murder. It went to trial and when the Jury was shown the bloody curtain from the living room window, proof that he had come throught the window, she was found innocent and set free.
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