Women, Work, and Domestic Violence: Education and Information for Employers
Domestic violence doesnÂ’t stay at home when its victims go to work, resulting in violence in the workplace. Lunch and learn sessions help educate employers on the issue of Domestic Violence in the Workplace and develop proper protocol.
DALLAS, TX (PRWEB) November 9, 2004
Domestic violence doesnÂ’t stay at home when its victims go to work, resulting in violence in the workplace. A woman in this situation is often harassed at work with threatening phone calls, absent because of injuries, or less productive from high stress levels. It is important that this problem been viewed as preventable like many other workplace health and safety issues. Educating employers and helping develop policies can impact the bottom line.
The Haven Women’s Outreach has taken a serious look at the impact of violence in the workplace over the past year and developed a lunch and learn session called 'Can We Talk?: Domestic Violence and the Workplace'. “Many of our clients are or have been employed and because of the escalating levels of abuse from the abuser, it jeopardizes employers and their employees. Rather than deal with the problem, many employers terminate employment for the victim” says Director, Kim Harris.
The Haven Women's Outreach moderates the lunch and learn session allowing human resource staff, managers, and upper-level executives an opportunity to promote and develop intervention and prevention solutions for dealing with domestic violence through their employee assistance programs. This is a proactive and cost-effective approach that considers the total well-being of staff members. Can We Talk?: Domestic Violence and the Workplace has prompted interested within one of the largest financial institutions in the world. “One of my objectives with the lunch and learn series is to help men and women understand that domestic violence is an 'equal opportunity social dysfunction'. It doesn’t discriminate against any particular socio-economic group. Women who are at the poverty level, corporate level, and every ethnicity can be affected by this,” Ms. Harris continues.
The mission of The Haven WomenÂ’s Outreach is to embrace, educate, and empower women who through adverse circumstance have been economically and socially displaced because of domestic violence. To promote policy change and response methods concerning domestic violence through education and awareness so that all women can lead productive and enriched lives.
For information on the Can We Talk?: Domestic Violence and the Workplace Lunch and Learn, please contact Kim Harris at 1-888-429-4654 Ext. 123 or email at LunchLearn@ixp. net, or write: P. O. Box 893, c/o Lunch Learn DV Talk, Cedar Hill, TX 75106. For info on The Haven WomenÂ’s Outreach visit http://www. thehavenwomensoutreach. org (http://www. thehavenwomensoutreach. org)
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