A webinar titled “DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Identifying and responding to intimate partner abuse” will be presented on Tuesday, February 24 at 1:30PM EST. The webinar will feature Paulette Geanacopoulos, LMSW, National Philoptochos’ Director of Social Work, and Rev. Fr. Chrysostomos Gilbert, Proistamenos of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, NYC.
This webinar will provide an overview of domestic violence including its prevalence, forms of abuse, its basis in power and control, its impact on children, cultural barriers to accessing mainstream services, why victims remain in abusive relationships, concepts of prayer and forgiveness, and the spiritual aloneness a victim feels who believes God has abandoned her. The webinar will end with suggested actions we can take to ensure we respond in helpful, not hurtful ways, including what to say to someone who is or we think is being abused, helping a victim increase her safety and that of her children, and how to find local domestic violence programs that can help a victim decide what she is willing and able to do.
To register visit: http://gowoa.me/i/K7gJ
Sponsored by the Center for Family Care of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
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