Lynn Rosenthal gives keynote at
NAEH Ending Family Homelessness Conference
Lynn Rosenthal, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence was the keynote speaker on February 13, 2009, at the National Alliance to End Homelessness Ending Family Homelessness Conference. Ms. Rosenthal challenged the attendees by diving deep into the subject so that they could both understand and put and end to violence against women.
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She listed four principles in her speech.
- Domestic Violence is not a clinical problem
- Any women can be a victim
- Women living through violence are the experts on whey need to be safe
- We need to change the conditions that allowed this violence to be part of our culture.
In closing, Ms. Rosenthal quoted Alice Paul: “Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”
