Suviving Sexual Abuse
This week on "Saturday Mornings with Joy Keys"-Internet Radio Show
PHILADELPHIA, PA April 03, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Special Guest: Sylvia Coleman, BA, is an award-winning health journalist (www.writeprofessional.com), who conducts the "From Victim to Victor" workshop for African-American sexual abuse survivors at the Temple University PASCEP program. She was awarded the prestigious Leeway Foundation grant to create: www.blacksurvivors.org, a national, online support group and online resource center for black sexual abuse survivors. She is also the author of "Creating a New Normal: Cleaning Up a Dysfunctional Life," a book that chronicles her own healing from sexual abuse. Coleman has been featured on Praise 103.9, 107.9 WRNB and "Wake Up Live" in Boston.
Special Guest: Ashley-Michelle Papon is a 24-year-old survivor of acquaintance rape. She has been an advocate for survivors of sexual violence for several years, taking part in the documentary "Swimming Upstream" in 2003 and organizing the first Take Back the Night at Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2006. That same year, she also served as a Keynote Speaker for Emporia State University's Take Back the Night and a Featured Speaker at Kansas State University's Take Back the Night. She also serves as a member of the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network's Speakers Bureau and contributed to their recent book release, "Yes, You Do Know One of Us," available for purchase on the Barnes&Noble Website. She also serves as co-moderator with five other fabulous women of After Silence, a message board dedicated to facilitating a healing environment for survivors of sexual violence.
When: Saturday April 4, 2009 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. EST
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