 Football
Hall of Fame member Herschel Walker is
the author of the dramatic memoir, Breaking Free: My
Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder, published
by Touchstone Hardcover Books of Simon & Schuster
last April. Walker played for the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota
Vikings and Philadelphia Eagles, retiring in 1997 having
gained more yards than anyone in professional football
history. |
 Writer,
therapist and motivational speaker Catherine
Conheim was named 2007 Local Hero of the Year
by the San Diego Psychological Association. Author
of books about Henry
the resilient three-legged cat,
Conheim has also been honored by the ASPCA with its
2006 Humane Issues Award. She served as Co-Director
of the emergency shelter for criminally abused and
neglected Children in New Haven, Connecticut. Co-founder
of the Athena Charitable Trust and Producer of the
Real Women Project, she also hosts an on-air counseling
program on San Diego radio station KSDO. |
 As
Senior Policy Advisor to the Director of the Office
on Violence Against Women, United States Department
of Justice, Jan E. Langbein guides
and evaluates OVW’s grant program process and
supports the Director on policy issues concerning
implementation of the Violence Against Women Act.
For over 20 years, Ms. Langbein has been an activist
in efforts to end violence against women. Since 1991
and prior to joining OVW, she served as Executive
Director of Genesis Women’s Shelter in Dallas. |
| Christine Brautigam,
Chief, Women’s Rights Section, Division for the
Advancement of Women in Department of Economic and
Social Affairs, United Nations joined the UN in 1993.
She was part of the team that organized the Fourth
World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995.
A lawyer by training, Ms Brautigam has focused on the
implementation of CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) and eliminating
violence against women. Ms Brautigam worked on
an in-depth study of violence against women that was
presented to the General Assembly of the United Nations
in October 2006. |
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The original and best conference in
the field, the International Conference on Violence,
Abuse and Trauma is the premier gathering of professionals
and activists involved in all aspects of violence, abuse
and trauma.
The conference features 14 tracks
- shown below - and internationally known speakers
such as Herschel Walker, Cathy Conheim, Jan E. Langbein
and Christine Brautigam. There's still time to register,
so don't miss this exciting opportunity.
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