The Breakfast Panel will take place at the Harvard Club of NYC, 35 West 44th Street. Tickets cost $100 and include a continental breakfast.Panelists include
Dr. Marina Catallozzi, Assistant Professor, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, an authority on relationship abuse in high school and college.
Wanda Lucibello, Chief of the Special Victims Division, Office of the Kings County District Attorney
Dr. Catherine Stayton, Director of the Injury Epidemiology Unit, NYC , Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Member of Steering Committee of Columbia University’s Center for Youth Violence Prevention
Barrie Levy, M.S.W. is on the faculty of UCLA Departments of Social Welfare and Women’s Studies. She is a consultant for the Westside Domestic Violence Network, a psychotherapist in private practice and a nationally recognized trainer on domestic and sexual violence. Ms. Levy has appeared on over 15 television shows, and written many books and articles, including Dating Violence: Young Women in Danger and What Parents Need to Know About Dating Violence.
During 30 years in this field, she has founded and directed four domestic violence organizations.
An epidemiologist and pediatrician respectively, Drs. Stayton and Catallozzi have chronicled the effects of date violence on young women. Ms. Lucibello was instrumental in starting Brooklyn’s Family Justice Center and Teen Court.
- Fewer than one in four teens talks with parents about dating safety.
- One out of five female high school students reports being physically or sexually abused by a dating partner.
- Drinking, drug use, suicide attempts and unsafe weight loss accompany teen relationship abuse.
For ten years the Center has been the leading partner with the NYC Human Resources Administration in RAPP – the Relationship Abuse Prevention Program. Through RAPP, the Center teaches thousands of teens in seventeen NYC schools how to build healthy relationships, how to recognize danger in a relationship and how to plan for safety in dangerous situations. RAPP gives teens tools to grow into a safe and healthy tomorrow.
With help from the George Link and Verizon Foundations, the Center is able to include a parochial high school and to test Relationships are Elementary – the Center’s groundbreaking elementary school violence prevention program. The Center Against Domestic Violence operates relationship abuse prevention programs in seventeen elementary, intermediate and high schools in New York City, reaching 30,000 students each year.
