Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 - Two-day seminar

Hi, Everyone,
Thanks for stopping by this past month. Sure hope you were able to find information to help you or someone you know going through domestic violence and abuse. Tell others...save a life-maybe even your own!

I attended a two-day seminar for work this past week on Thursday and Friday. Author, Lundy Bancroft was the speaker all day on Thursday and what an incredible job he did! He sure knows how to assess and determine if someone is violent and abusive! (Of course I knew this from reading his books, but to hear him in person was such a blessing!) He even signed his book I use at work- "Why Does He Do That?" for me. Cool! I will try quickly to put all the information I wrote down and absorbed through the seminar to share with my WISH girls!

Please visit his website at: www.lundybancroft.com for valuable information and also to see the books he has written. If you can't afford to buy them, see if they have them at your local library. If not, ask the library to get a copy for you from another library!

The speakers on Friday was Lorraine Reed, mother of Stacie Reed who was murdered (stabbed twice in the heart), at the age of 16 years old. Her sister, Kristie (age 14) was also brutally attacked, neck slashed, raped, and left for dead in their home.
Lorraine established the S.T.A.C.I.E. Foundation (Striving Towards Achieving Compassion Intervention and Education). Website: www.staciefoundation.org Her story was so moving and also inspiring!

Also speaking on Friday was Detective Tom Leonard. He was the Master Detective at the time of Stacie's murder and Kristie's attack.  He was an excellent presenter and told the entire true story in great detail and PowerPoint pictures of how the attacks happened, the arrest of the 20-year old man who was found guilty on many charges, and eventually died in the electric chair eleven years later.

So, everyone, new information for you! Learn more and educate yourself and those you know or suspect are going through violence and abuse!

Until next time, please take care, be safe, and share my website with others so that can learn too!

Until next time,

Becky Conrad