It Could Happen to Anyone!

Sharifa Batts, Program Vice President

The October AAUW program will focus on the perpetrators of violence in intimate relationships. We will explore the reasons for violent behavior and the reasons to hope it can change. Guest speaker (and AAUW member) Alyce LaViolette will tell stories of the people she works with. Although most of the perpetrators of domestic violence are male, she has also worked with females who are abusive. She will talk about her own experiences doing this work and the rationale for the way she does her program. She loves discussion and welcomes questions and comments.

Ms. LaViolette has worked with victims of intimate partner violence since 1978. In 1979, she founded one of the first programs in the country to work with abusive partners as a program of WomenShelter of Long Beach. In 1984 she went into private practice with a specialty in domestic violence and with high-conflict couples and gender issues. She has a broad-based private practice. Alyce speaks nationally and internationally and has served on the Speaker’s Bureau for the U.S. Department of State. She has developed programs for the Probation Dept. in Los Angeles County and for the Department of Children and Family Services for LA and
Orange Counties. Alyce has served as an expert witness in criminal, family and civil court since 1984. She appears on local and national television and radio and has co-authored one of Sage Publication’s best-selling books “It Could Happen to Anyone: Why Battered Women Stay”.

Guests are welcome to attend this Saturday program that starts at 11:00 AM. The Meeting venue is Long Beach City College, 4900 E. ConantSt (Clark & Conant). Follow signs to Building O2, Room 208.

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