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I have over 25 years experience working with nonprofit, community based organizations providing program management, program development and health care administration.
I would welcome an opportunity to:
- Help your organization expand its services to become a fully comprehensive program.
- Train your staff and/or organization to utilize trauma informed care and evidence-based practices when providing services.
- Provide assistance in recognizing, identifying and assessing the correlation between domestic violence, human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation and prostitution.
Norma is a trainer and sought after public speaker on the topics of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Sexual Exploitation in both the public and private based sector.
- 1 in 4 women will experience domestic violence at some point in her life
- Domestic violence is the single greatest cause of injury to women
- Women are seven times more likely than men to be victims of a violent assault from a current or former intimate partner
- 61% of women that prostitute have been raped 1 or more times
- 55% of prostitutes were foster care youth and are from group homes
- 82% of prostitutes are runaways
- 70% of prostitutes started their live as abused children