Sheila Weir is a life coach who has a special passion for helping victims of abuse. She practices Core Energy coaching, which is focused on helping h...
LAA Interview with Dr. Alison Jackson: Helping to stop child abuse
Victims of sexual abuse are unfortunately getting younger, as are their perpetrators. Despite the depiction of adolescents as “young adults” in our me...
LAA: Interview with Mr. Ron LeGrand: VAWA and Men Helping Women
It takes a village to protect victims of abuse and assault. That village by necessity requires the strong support of men who care deeply about the liv...
LAA Episode #5 : Interview with Hellen Tanyinga, Exec Director of Rape Hurts Foundation
An extraordinary woman can do extraordinary things out of horrific circumstances. Hellen Tanyinga is such a woman. In 2009, Ms. Tanyinga started the ...
LAA Episode 4: Legal Remedies for Assault
The road to bringing perpetrators to justice can go through the criminal and/or civil justice system(s). Considering the relatively small percentage ...
How to Stay Safe on Campus: Interview with Michael Bicking, Head of Public Safety at Eastern College
"New parents with college students believe that there is this safe order around all the colleges [and] that everything is going to be fine because the...
LAA Episode 2: The Campus Sexual Assault Crisis
I’m going to focus on findings from a Columbia University/Barnard cohort (group of students) that was surveyed in 2016 as part of the SHIFT or Sexual ...
LAA Episode 0: Why I Can't Stay Silent
In 2017 my life changed forever after my oldest daughter was raped on a college campus. Just when I thought that this was the worst blow I would ever ...