All posts tagged: National Domestic Violence Awareness Month

My Sister's House, Shattered Lives, Elmire Ravin, Donna R. Gore

Shattered Lives: Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Guest Elmire Ravin

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  National Domestic Violence Awareness Month is honored every October, often competing with other worthy, and more well known issues. To be sure there is exposure to the intimate partner violence cause, Shattered Lives Radio welcomes back previous guest, Elmire Ravin, Executive Director of My Sister’s House located in North Charleston, South Carolina. Listeners will learn about not only the issue of domestic violence, but the work of advocates and organizations across the country who have been working to make changes in the way the issue is perceived. While there have been many advances in education and awareness over the years, victims are still being asked, “why don’t you just leave?” With the national attention on the NFL, especially the very public incident involving Baltimore Ravens player, Ray Rice and his then girlfriend. The spotlight has been turned back on as it is when there is a celebrity or professional athlete involved in intimate partner violence. This is the time everyone must push to make quick advances before the light goes dim and the story stops …

Violence in the Workplace: Johnny Lee of Peace at Work on The Susan Murphy Milano Show

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The Susan Murphy Milano Show, “Time’s Up!” Thursday, October 20, 2pm ET Listen LIVE at: Here Women Talk Johnny Lee was previously the Workplace Violence Specialist for the North Carolina Office of State Personnel. His responsibilities included offering program consultation and staff development training to all state agencies and universities on workplace violence prevention and management. His experience includes his role as the Training Director for the UNC-Chapel Hill Injury Prevention Research Center’s PREVENT program, delivering a CDC funded, national violence prevention training program. He is author of the book, Domestic Violence in the Workplace, published by HRD Press in 2005. He has also conducted a  research study on over 500 cases of domestic violence assaults that have occurred in the workplace and developed the Employment and Domestic Violence Matrix, used around the world to show how employment is a protective factor for DV prevention. Formerly, he was the co-chair of the Workplace Policies and Public Awareness Committee of the North Carolina Domestic Violence Commission that produced the highly successful State-Wide Summit.  He also sat on the …

Pastor Neil Schori and Gayle Crabtree: The Role of the Church and Clergy in Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

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The Susan Murphy Milano Show, “Time’s Up!” Thursday, October 13, 2pm ET Listen LIVE at: Here Women Talk A pastor and a pastor’s wife join forces to discuss the role of the church in the prevention and assistance to victims of intimate partner violence.  Do clergy have enough training, and the appropriate training, to aid victims of violence properly?  We will find out what innovative methods and training are available to churches all across the country, how churches can join hands with citizens and organizations to present unity for the victims. Neil Schori serves as lead pastor of Naperville Christian Church. Neil has a Master of Arts in counseling from Lincoln Christian Seminary. Over the past 10 years, Neil has served full-time in several pastoral roles ranging from family care and counseling to community groups and assimilation. Neil is also an advocate for victims of domestic violence. Neil lives in the Chicago suburbs with wife, Brandi, and three daughters, Hannah, Mia & Ava.  You can learn more about Neil on his blog. Gayle D’Ambrosio-Crabtree is a nationally recognized speaker …

Claudine Dombrowski Reporting From Ground Zero in Topeka

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There is a crisis in the Family Courts of America and Claudine Dombrowski is a warrior in the battle for change. A battered mother who lost custody of her daughter to the person who abused her, her battle has been ongoing for approximately 16 years, with no solution. In Topeka, Kansas, Dombrowski’s home town, on October 11, 2011, members of the City Council voted and successfully repealed the city’s ordinance banning domestic violence during National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.   Dombrowski first brought the news of this to Intimate Partner Violence Prevention Specialist, Susan Murphy Milano around September 15, and she immediately took action by featuring the story on several national radio shows. During the two hour televised council meeting, the one sided discussion from 7 of the 10 elected members amounted to nothing more than political finger pointing. Leading the charge, and ultimately dictating the vote, was Interim City Manager Dan Stanley, brow beating those during the hearing into submission of his way or the highway. It was classic manipulation “101” presented in a live stream real …

Survivors Speak: National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Special With Susan Murphy Milano

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Listen Live Sunday, October 16 at 8pm ET on Crime Wire Radio http://blogtalkradio.com/crimewire In honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Susan Murphy Milano welcomes two well known authors who have published their stories of survival.  Stories of the realities suffered by victims of violence are written for several reasons, to assist those victims in their healing process, and to reach other victims who may be caught in similar situations. There will also be discussion surrounding TIME’S UP: A GUIDE ON HOW TO LEAVE AN ABUSIVE AND STALKING RELATIONSHIP by Susan Murphy Milano and what tools are now available for victims of abuse to safely leave their violent relationship. Tricia McKnight and Lynn C. Tolson have gone through the pits of victim hood and reached the other side as survivors.  Each of them have written their individual memoirs, sharing similar realities. Tricia McKnight is the author of MY JUSTICE, the story of her childhood destroyed by sexual abuse by her stepfather and severe neglect by her mother. The behaviors learned and accepted as a child …