Miami Middletown Hosts Domestic Violence Awareness Month Events

October 3, 2012

Miami University Middletown will host a number of events in October to raise Domestic Violence Awareness. Admission to all events is free and open to the public.

Oct. 11, Yes! There is someone who can help! Resources for Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence in Southwest Ohio Panel Discussion, 2:30 p.m., Miriam G. Knoll Campus & Community Center. Panelists include Donna Holbert, Butler County Sheriff's Office Victim Advocacy Program; Fran Reese, Domestic Violence Program Director for the Hamilton’s YWCA (Dove House); Marcie L Jennings, Group Facilitator/Victims Advocate Hamilton’s YWCA (Dove House) and Meredith Schnug, Attorney, Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio, LLC.

Oct. 24, Book Discussion: Jean-Robert Cadet’s My Stone of Hope, 12 p.m., Gardner-Harvey Library. Participants will discuss Cadet’s fight to make his way in the United States, and examine his journey to find education, serve in the military and take advantage of GI benefits to become a teacher. Discussion will look at his work rescuing Haiti's child slaves, helping to educate them as a way to give back what was given to him.

Oct. 25, "That's How Marriage Is”: An Ethnographic Look at Intimate Partner Violence in Lambayeque, Peru, 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m., Miriam G. Knoll Campus & Community Center. Lauren Whitmer, Instructor of Spanish and Portuguese, Anthropology and Latin American Studies at Miami University will take a look at Lambayeque, a town on Peru's northern coast, where intimate partner violence against women is common.

Oct. 31, Ending Child Slavery, 1 p.m., Miriam G. Knoll Campus & Community Center. Featured speaker is Jean-Robert Cadet author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle Class American and My Stone of Hope. Lunch will be provided at 12 p.m. for the first 40 attendees.

These events are sponsored by the Miami Middletown’s Diversity Council. For more information, call Gina Petonito, (513) 217-4177.