When:	Back to Calendar » February 21, 2012 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Where:	Women's Health Resource Library School St Milbridge,ME 04658 USA	✔ Add to Calendar Add to Google Calendar
Cost:	Free - please call to register
Contact:	Judith Toland 546-7677

Facilitator: Lee Lee Schlegel

In talking about women’s health issues, we not only have to deal with such physical illnesses as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, etc. but issues of violence against women and the threat of violence as well. The statistics for the abuse of teen and college age women in peer environments, on dates and in the workplace are disturbing.

During the course of this program we’ll be focusing primarily on sexual assault and relationship violence; the dynamics of abuse, its warning signs and predictors; types of offenders and what to do to take care of your self. Those who would like to have some educational tools to help keep themselves safe in various aspects of their lives will find this program useful. This is not a physical self-defense class.

Lee Lee Schlegel worked in the field of sex crimes and domestic violence for 20 years, first as a therapist, and then as the Commonwealth of Virginia’s legal expert on sex and domestic crimes. She has served as a consultant and teacher for various agencies including the FBI, INTERPOL and many police academies. She was also on the staff at the Fairfax County, VA police academy where she taught the psychology, sociology, victimology and law of sex crimes and domestic crimes for many years. She retired in 2001 and moved to Maine.